[tech] VirtualBox on one of the linux desktops

[Jacques Chester]

My understanding of Microsoft's licensing is that you need a separate
license for each installation. They count a VM as a separate  
installation.
This is really annoying when it's the same bits on the same physical  
drive.

So I guess I'm saying, based on my own bitter experience, that the  
answer
is "nope". We'd need another license to run XP both as a dual-boot OS  
and
in the VM.

Cheers,

JC.


On 30/04/2009, at 1:46 PM, Harry wrote:

> I've setup VirtualBox 2.2.0 with an XP VM under lenny here and it's  
> very easy
> to configure and use.
>
> Are wheel and committee types ok with me installing this on one of  
> the dual
> boot machines at UCC and relying on the XP license on that machine  
> to install
> the XP VM ?
>
> I would just need a wheel to log in as root or a temporary root  
> password on
> the machine to do the installation.
>
> Harry
>
>
>