Re: For those who have Intel-based Macs...
- From: "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 16:13:12 -0600
Virtual PC 2007 for Intel machines does not entitle you to transfer a VPC 6 or 7 bundled copy of Windows to an Intel machine. You are always free to transfer the license to a retail copy of Windows, but not a bundled one. There is nothing on the website you linked that addresses VPC6 or 7 bundled Windows in any way. The bundled Windows license is restricted to use with the copy of VPC it comes with. The licenses for VPC for PPC Macs is not related to VPC 2007 at all.
"Tony Kavadias" <tonzack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4832c4ba$0$1022$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
... I want to treat you all with an insight to what is possible (because I have this configuration running right now as I write this) if you want to install Windows on the Mac via Boot Camp, but want to preserve your former Virtual PC installation within the new Windows environment on our Mac.
This was exactly my scenario: I have Windows Vista Business that I want to run under Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro, but I have stuff I want to migrate from Windows XP running under a virtual machine on an old PowerPC-based Mac (my PowerBook G4, incidentally) running Virtual PC.
And according to the EULA that comes with Virtual PC, I actually am entitled to do this legally under the new arrangement because the copy of Windows that ran under the old Virtual PC installation will continue to run in the same way under the new installation... so you can forget worrying about any legalities when you do this, except for two issues:
* you promise to forfeit your Virtual PC installation on the PowerPC-based Mac, and the installation of Windows within, and
* you may have to re-authenticate Windows when you migrate your installation on your new Intel-based Mac.
[Important: for the above to be true, you must have a Virtual PC product with a version of Windows that you actually intend to use on the upgraded system, or you need a retail product of Windows, which comes with its own EULA and installation disks. Using a product that did not come with your licensed copy of Virtual PC or Windows retail is a voilation of the Windows and/or Virtual PC and/or Office v.Mac Professional EULA.]
If Windows came with your Virtual PC:Mac or Office v.Mac Professional product, then you will have no problems running under the new environment, either technically or legally.
So what is the new environment that I am so excited about? Well, I simply came to the realisation that even though I can boot Windows on my Mac via Boot Camp, I can also augment this environment with an installation of Virtual PC 2007 SP1 for Windows, of which can be obtained for free from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
to run older installations of Windows on my Intel-based Macintosh! So now I have a way to run the former virtual machine on a faster environment, in a completely compatible manner that does not involve translating virtual machines from one product to another.
The slightly tricky part is copying the hard disk image(s) to the Windows Vista boot partition. This mailout shows how to prepare your disk images so that Virtual PC 2007 can boot them.
Firstly, you need an Intel-based Mac with Leopard installed (or Tiger, if you have dared to keep a beta of Boot Camp running on your system!), and you need to install a host Windows installation. I have used Windows Vista Business on my setup-but you can also use Windows XP SP2, since you need to have a supported version of Windows available for Boot Camp to boot into.
After you have Vista or XP installed on the Boot Camp partition, download Virtual PC 2007 and install that into your Windows environment. After you have that up and running, don't prepare a virtual machine for it just yet... you'll want to get your old virtual machine into the Windows system first.
To do that, you can:
* prepare the host Windows XP or Vista system to enable file sharing, so that your PowerPC-based Mac can mount its SMB file share.
* copy your virtual machine <name>.vpc7 to the host Windows installation on your Intel-based Mac via SMB networking.
There are other ways you could copy the virtual machine over... but I chose what I think is the quickest and cheapest solution.
Then, in Virtual PC 2007, make a new virtual machine. You need to do this because Virtual PC for Mac and Virtual PC 2007 have different filing conventions for representing your virtual machine-dropping in the Mac's virtual machine for Virtual PC 2007 to pick up will not work, because Virtual PC 2007 cannot identify Virtual PC's virtual machines.
When you make your
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-- tonza.
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