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

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therevd@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Dec 13, 1:06 am, Paul Power <paulkpo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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

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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

I think that I am getting the message that people think that trying to
use the copy of Windows XP that I purchased is a bad thing to do. So I
should take their advice and either pay through the nose for a
possibly licensed copy of XP from a third party, non-authorised
reseller here - or alternatively, having scanned Microsoft Thailand's
(only in Thai) website and come across a list of resellers that
suggests I make a two hundred mile round trip to possibly qualify for
an education priced copy, I should leave my current country of
residence, cross the border into Thailand get the software and pay the
customs duty on my return all to run Windows on an HP Pavillion with
Pentium D, I paid a little over $200 for.
You hopefully see why I was hoping to use my existing software. I am
not a criminal - not knowingly anyway, yet in a country, sadly without
much of a concept of intellectual property rights, the fact that
running software I purchased on only one machine, is considered off-
limits by Microsoft, whose service in this region doesn't even extend
to listing this country on it's website, seems a little unreasonable.
Why on earth should Virtual PC owners not be able to use their
legitimately purchased copies of Windows software, following the
switch by Mac to Intel? Obviously I am not the only person tempted to
flout "the rules".

It's no different to the copy of Windows that comes with a brand new
Dell PC - you are NOT allowed to take that and install it on any other
computer for any reason. The same happens with the version of the Mac
OS that comes with a new computer.

It's called "bundled" and is cheaper for a reason.

If you had thought you might want to do something like this, then you
should really have bought plain Virtual PC without any operating system
and bought a separate Windows license. That way you can use it however
you want (within the "installed on one computer at a time"
restricition).

It's standard practice in the computer industry and has been for
decades.

Simple fact: It's not legal to do it.
Whining on about it isn't going to make any difference at all.




After all, wasn't it Microsoft themselves who killed off Virtual PC
for Mac? Microsoft clearly want to fully explore the possibility of
having it's cake and eating it!

Microsoft stopped making Virtual PC for the Mac since it would have
required yet another re-write for the Intel-based Macs. With other
options already around, it simply wasn't worht them wasting time,
effort and money on such a small number of users.


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

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