Re: Virtual PC for Vista Home Premium?

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I know that. I am simply clarifying the difference between what runs and what is supported. There is a ton of misinformation on that topic. There are a lot of statements that simply are not true.

Licensing is yet another topic and is equally misunderstood. An example of that is the difference between licensing virtual machines when running a retail copy of Vista versus a volume license or Software Assurance copy. In the latter case the EULA for Vista Enterprise and Ultimate permit the licensing of four virtualized copies of Windows and the virtualization software used does not even have to be Microsoft's. Just an example of how convoluted all this can be.

"Helpful Harry" <helpful_harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:200420070859349248%helpful_harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <C394692A-B603-4B19-A806-8BD89837D0A6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Colin
Barnhorst" <colinbarharst@xxxxxxx> wrote:

There is a lot of misinformation here. I hope the following helps.

First, all editions of Vista will run in a virtualized environment. I have
run both Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium using VPC 2007 on a MacBook
Pro (Windows partition).
<snip>

It's simply the same as re-using the copy of Windows from Virtual PC
with Parallels ... it can be done, but the licensing aggreement that
you leaglly aggree to by installing the product does not allowed to do
it, and anyone that ignores those rules is being a greedy, selfish
moron.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

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