On Monday 25 August 2008 14:39, Ken Schneider wrote:
Does anyone have any experience cloning Vista installed on a new machine to a VM? I recently purchased a new laptop and would like have Vista in a VM then having to dual boot this machine. Well, at least until a driver is finished for the Hauppauge 950Q HVR.
Is this Vista installed from a generic Microsoft OEM distribution, or one that was bundled with new PC hardware? I've installed the generic OEM releases of Windows XP (SP2) and that version requires product activation (binding a serial number to a specific hardware configuration). If you've activated such an installation, you'll have to switch that activation to the VM-based installation, since the likelihood of Windows thinking it's the same hardware seem pretty remote. Of course, I don't know how this works for Windows pre-installed by hardware vendors or whether Vista has retained this scheme, so it may all be moot, but it's something to keep in mind.
-- Ken Schneider
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