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
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