On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Ken Schneider
John Andersen pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:39 PM, 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.
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It sort of matters which VM you are talking about. Vmware has utilities for this. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html I have not used these.
I have used CloneZilla. But not with vista. The biggest thing with CloneZilla is to get the disk sizes exact between the original and the clone because its prettymuch an image copy.
Still, I think you will run afoul of Microsoft registration stuff, and you might be better off going thru channels at microsoft to legally move the license after copying all your data.
The VM I'm using is VirtualBox. There should be no legal need to move the license since it's the same physical hardware.
For some values of "physical", perhaps. But since we are talking a switch to a virtual platform, I can assure you it will look different to Vista, and their definition becomes the governing one. They will require re-activation when several key items change. They don't say which items, but mac addresses, physical processors, memory, and pci bus items are surely some of the things they check. MS has rescinded virtually all their prior bans on using Vista with a visualization environment, and they will even swap your license key for a generic one if you are saddled with a OEM key. Then all you have to do is find media to install from, or work out the actual physical to virtual transition. In my experience, they are not hard to deal with as long as you are making an effort to remain legit. -- ----------JSA--------- Someone stole my tag line, so now I have this rental. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org