On May 8, 2014 7:56:23 AM EDT, Linda Walsh
John Andersen wrote:
On 5/7/2014 1:24 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
I have re-installed with a retail onto my dell box, but to get it to 'license' correctly, I need to copy over the BIOS
authentication
mechanisms from a dell-install disk. Once those are on the disk Windows will use those to check for activation & authenticity.
That process (copy over the bios authentication mechanisms) would bear fleshing out a little bit for the Google Spiders if nothing else.
All often, you don't get a disk at all anymore. Where are these mechanisms actually found, what do they look like, where do you have to have them in order to get the COA to be accepted?
---- The COA *isn't* accepted -- unless you resort to the phone. When the phone people hear the COA, they'll check to see if it's a stolen/too many uses license that's been suspended, but if not, they'd give you a validation code.
If you have a Professional or Ultimate (maybe just ultimate, I forget), then they should support you running Win7 in a VM. If it's a home version, then it's not supported/not licensed.
I went and looked. For ultimate you can run the OS on a physical machine or a single VM, but not both. I did not check pro. There are enterprise win 7 licenses that are more flexible, but I don't have access to anything like that. Also it seems you can migrate a single XP machine to a VM and run it under win 7 and be legal. I need to research that more unless someone knows. Ie. I have an old XP machine with a demo on it and I need to keep the demo demo-able. Once migrated the physical computer will be retired. Is there a way to migrate a physical XP machine to a VM that runs under opensuse? Is xp still activated/licensed? Greg -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org