On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 17:00 +0100, Heike C. Zimmerer wrote: > > You generally can't clone an existing Windows installation, take it to > a different hardware and expect it to work reliably.
I thought that was the point of hardware profiles. > As a virtual machine most probably will expose to the OS a hardware > which is different from the original one (your physical hardware), the > same applies for what you're trying to do. Exactly. But as I understand it, each hardware profile has it's own list of drivers that it installs for the given hardware configuration. > You could try if you can correct the situation by replacing the > drivers since Windows seems to work at least somehow. But that would > mean wiping out your existing drivers, rendering your original > unusable. Not if I do the wiping/changing in a different profile, again, as I understand hardware profiles. > Even if you'd succeed somehow, be prepared to go through the Windows > licensing process (Windows will detect it is running on a different > hardware than the one it was licensed for) which could, depending on > the kind of your license, invalidate the original one. Yeah. I do have a Windows license on another machine that seems to do that. Very annoying. I have a ticket opened with MS on that (1-1184771681) issue, not that I have been called back on that, nor do I expect them to call or even give it a second look. The license on this (corporate) machine doesn't seem to have that limitation though. b.
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