[opensuse] VirtualBox and Windows XP with a wrong system license
Several years ago, I bought a laptop that, of course, had a legit license. Since, the laptop died and switched to another laptop using a WPA crack. Now, using the same install CD, installed it in VirtualBox along with the same WPA crack. Since MS hates this thought, is there a way to run on both platforms without a crack program and without pay for a new license. In my old mainframe world, you could get a generic product key that would allow the packages to run in a VM machine. I have done a lot of Googling to no avail on this subject, so I thought I wold go to the source and ask this list. Thank you in advance, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
El 19/01/11 20:46, Duaine Hechler escribió:
Several years ago, I bought a laptop that, of course, had a legit license.
Since, the laptop died and switched to another laptop using a WPA crack.
Now, using the same install CD, installed it in VirtualBox along with the same WPA crack.
The windows license is only for one system, you can only run windows legally in one laptop with one key. There is a solution called "linux" or you need to buy a new license. ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 17:46 -0600, Duaine Hechler wrote:
Several years ago, I bought a laptop that, of course, had a legit license.
Since, the laptop died and switched to another laptop using a WPA crack.
Yeah I had this fun recently myself. MS insists that I call ACER for the new activation code.
Now, using the same install CD, installed it in VirtualBox along with the same WPA crack.
Since MS hates this thought, is there a way to run on both platforms without a crack program and without pay for a new license.
It's different with laptops that grey box systems, I've transferred my WinXP-Home license 3 times and MS had no problem with it being a dead hardware (cpu/mobo) issue. THe laptop was a different thing, they said to call the Manufacturer and get them to issue a new code, that might be what you need to do.
In my old mainframe world, you could get a generic product key that would allow the packages to run in a VM machine.
I have done a lot of Googling to no avail on this subject, so I thought I wold go to the source and ask this list.
Thank you in advance, Duaine
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In my old mainframe world, you could get a generic product key that would allow the packages to run in a VM machine.
I have done a lot of Googling to no avail on this subject, so I thought I wold go to the source and ask this list.
Thank you in advance, Duaine Quite a few years ago, I worked for a man (a company VP) who was very computer-oriented. He had one of the first IBM PC's that came out. Small CPM lan before that. He probably knew more about operating systems
On 01/20/2011 12:54 AM, Mike McMullin wrote: than anyone else in the fairly large company, including the it people. He kept up with the Microsoft releases, and had a subscription, I imagine it was with M/S itself, where he would get new releases of everything on just about a monthly basis. All the Windows releases he got came with a "universal" key--he could install as many as he wanted, wherever he wanted. He had his own subgroup doing software for a big country- wide network related to security systems, and they all had copies of the latest M/S software, and since I was one of the few people outside of the software group who was relatively hip on computing, I got to install Windows 98 shortly after it became available. At any rate, yes, there were "universal" keys for lan-type installs, but I don't know what he paid for the subscription, or, conversely, maybe M/S paid him as a beta-tester, I just don't know the details. And of course, there were _real_ lan-wide licenses, where I guess there was a single key for the lan. GOK what the lan-wide key cost! (The company lan, when it was created, ran on an IBM system, not Microsoft, but all the clients were Windows. The server ran on some IBM version of Unix, or something very like it. I don't remember the name.) But _you_ are not likely to find a universal key anywhere. OTOH, on one of the Linux lists very recently I read that XP-Pro now does not need any key--maybe since it was officially discontinued about 2 or 3 months ago. Where you get a version that doesn't need a key, I don't know. Maybe someone reading here has the answer. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 01/20/2011 02:09 AM, Doug wrote:
But _you_ are not likely to find a universal key anywhere. OTOH, on one of the Linux lists very recently I read that XP-Pro now does not need any key--maybe since it was officially discontinued about 2 or 3 months ago. Where you get a version that doesn't need a key, I don't know. Maybe someone reading here has the answer.
--doug
To answer my own previous post, Google says this: http://tech18.com/how-to-activate-windows-xp-without-product-key.html http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/windows-xp-sp3-installation-without... http://www.tipandtrick.net/2008/install-windows-xp-sp3-without-product-key-a... http://www.wikihow.com/Activate-Windows-XP-Without-a-Genuine-Product-Key I think the last is a copy of the first, I'm not sure. It looks like all you need is a version with SP3. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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