Robert L Cochran wrote:
Wayne Feick wrote:
Your license key may or may not work in a VM. Last time I tried to install Dell's OEM version of XP inside VMWare (admittedly a few years ago), it refused to activate and gave a message that it was only licensed to run on Dell hardware.
Wayne.
I'm just getting messages that the key is incorrect. I'll recheck it again after a belated lunch, maybe my eyes are just old and unfocused? Thanks for the heads up though. You might be right, I will follow up on this.
On the good side, my Fedora 10 VM is running with bridged networking. I hope it can see things like USB and serial ports.
Bob
There is a good chance that the key only works with specific machine model. I remember something on the VirtualBox mailing list about having to change some values in the virtual BIOS before you could install or convert a real image to a virtual one.
I have even run into problems like this with OEM Windows 98SE disks that would only install on Compaq machines.
Mikkel