Re: Installing bundled XP Home from Virtual PC 5 on a non-virtual PC

On Dec 12, 8:25 am, ther...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Dec 12, 8:56 am, Steve Jain <norepl...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:58:36 +1300, Helpful Harry

<helpful_ha...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article
<ae45fb1e-2183-4cd6-9b1b-d53a2fb2a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ther...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I wondered if anyone could help me to use my bundled XP Home that came
with Virtual PC 5 on a PC I bought. (I had just bought both a Mac Mini
and a G4 Power Book, a few months before the "Intel revolution" and
don't feel I need to change either at the moment, so the clearance PC
seemed like a good idea at the time!) It didn't come with any software
other than DOS, so I thought I could use my Virtual PC Windows XP on
it somehow and an article on :
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Fed-talk/2006/Jul/msg00050.html
appeared to offer a way of doing this. However, there are some
differences between my situation and the one described. The Windows XP
I have on the installation CD is not SP2. Also I received two, not
three installation disks: one marked "Disk 1 Installation Disk" and
the other: "Disk 2 Extra System Files". I thought that the second disk
may correspond to the 3rd disk in Virtual PC 7, but I can't be sure.
Both disks when opened on my Mac desktop show a folder marked "I386"
and not "i386". I am not sure if these are the same as the folder that
is described on the webpage or not.
The fact that the software isn't SP2 would probably affect the "-
ENU.exe" file I should use. Is there one that is specific for Windows
XP prior to SP2?
I am sorry for bothering you on this issue, which is probably a very
old chestnut. It is just that I live in Laos and experts are pretty
thin on the ground out here. I hope that someone can find a little
time to give me some advice.
Regards,
therevd.

It's not possible, and even if it was it breaks the agreement you
"signed" when opening the Virtual PC packaging.

It is possible, but it does break the license agreement and MS doesn't
like that. They generally send you a nice email asking you to remove
said procedure. ;-)

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVPhttp://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.

Thanks for the replies. I have to say, that having given the license
agreement that came with my Connectix Virtual PC for Mac a thorough
going over, there is absolutely nothing on the documentation that
states that I cannot use the Windows XP outwith Virtual PC. It states
that I can only run it on one PC at a time and I can only make one
backup copy. All of this I am quite happy to abide by. The
restrictions you have spoken about may have been more graphically
spelt out on the Microsoft owned versions 6 and 7, but believe me they
aren't there on Version 5! If the software is in fact restricted in
this way, then it certainly hasn't been made clear that this is the
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If you believe that you are entitled to use the Windows XP that
bundled with Virtual PC 5, the ONLY accurate advice that anyone can
give you is to contact the manufacturer of Virtual PC 5, who would be
the Original Equipment Manufacturer of record, since that version of
Windows is, indeed, an OEM version and is the property and
responsibility of the software company that bundled the package
together. Unfortunately, Connectix is no longer in business and
Microsoft assumed NO responsibility for the VPC product until VPC 6.1
.

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