On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Tim Atkinson <t...@hotneedle.net> wrote: > Sorry this is a little late but might be relavent > > My "main working" system is a vista 32bit VDI image on a 32Gb memory stick - > I boot this on whatever host hardware is available to me - Vista64 on AMD, > EEE PC Atom 32bit Ubuntu 9.10 and a Dell Precision Workstation 64bit Ubuntu > 9.10 Intel Xeon most commonly all running the latest stable Virtualbox. > > Whenever I moved away from my original install host (The 64bit vista) the > guest vista wanted to reactivate itself with a 3 day grace period. > > Then I hit on the idea of making the guest's MAC address the same on all the > hosts and the guest vista now no longer tries to reactivate itself. > I would guess that while Windows is supposed to only react if several out of > the 10 monitored items change - the Network interface might be more > carefully monitored than some other parameters. > > What this might amount to is that if you had bridged the guests network > interface the bridge might have a different Mac address which might then > force a reactivation of the host windows > > Much supposition about Windows behaviour on my part but hope it helps > > Cheers > > --Tim
Thanks Tim and all the others for the very informative answers. I haven´t reached any definitive conclusion about what happened that day. I´m only happy that I was able to re-activate my host XP Home copy with a call to Microsoft. Lately, I haven´t had time to play more with it, nor I re-use that problem-VM ever since. But rest assured as soon as I have time, I will, and I will post back to this very nice list. :) Thanks, FC _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
