Windows Licensing and Virtual PC
James
I have Virtual PC running on a desktop PC which is running Win XP Pro. To
create a new Virtual Disk can I use the same installation disk as that of the
host PC (my desktop PC) or do I need to purchase a separate copy of Windows
to install in the Virtual PC environment?
Regards,
James
Mark Rae
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You don't necessarily need a separate copy of Windows per se, but you do
need a separate licence...
Colin Barnhorst
machine. A vm is considered a separate computer from the host.
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PCGirl
One guest and one host with the license.
Robert Comer
and retail is one and one only)
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Robert Comer
"anythWinXP"
is supposed to be "any WinXP"
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Mark Rae
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> With XP Pro, You can install 2 instances of the OS with one device. Hence,
> One guest and one host with the license.
That simply isn't true...
Paul Adare
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> With XP Pro, You can install 2 instances of the OS with one device. Hence,
> One guest and one host with the license.
>
Sorry, but that simply isn't true unless you've got an SA or EA
agreement with Microsoft. For OEM and retails versions of XP this just
isn't the case.
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Kevin
whichever Windows configuration you need, rather than Virtual PC (since hard
drives are much cheaper than Windows). That's a shame. Virtual PC was a neat
idea before the license police ruined it.
Kevin
Steve Jain
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>So it would be much more cost effective to run multiple hard drives and boot
>whichever Windows configuration you need, rather than Virtual PC (since hard
>drives are much cheaper than Windows). That's a shame. Virtual PC was a neat
>idea before the license police ruined it.
>
>Kevin
How? It's no different than running two separate physical PCs at the
same time, you need a license for both.
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Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
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I do not work for Microsoft.
gebeleizis
> How? It's no different than running two separate physical PCs at the
> same time, you need a license for both.
>
How is that? If I am not running my physical machine, how can I run the
virtual one?
C A Upsdell
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:03:02 -0800, Kevin
> <Ke...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> So it would be much more cost effective to run multiple hard drives and boot
>> whichever Windows configuration you need, rather than Virtual PC (since hard
>> drives are much cheaper than Windows). That's a shame. Virtual PC was a neat
>> idea before the license police ruined it.
>>
>> Kevin
>
> How? It's no different than running two separate physical PCs at the
> same time, you need a license for both.
It is very different. I have to use Virtual PC only for testing IE with
websites, and only because M$ is too incompetent to allow multiple
versions of IE to be installed on one copy of Windows. I don't have to
pay for multiple Windows licenses to test sites with multiple versions
of Opera, Firefox, Konqueror, or any other browser: why should IE be
different? Why should I have to pay for M$'s incompetence?
Bob Babcock
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> It is very different. I have to use Virtual PC only for testing IE
> with websites, and only because M$ is too incompetent to allow
> multiple versions of IE to be installed on one copy of Windows.
Apparently it is possible to have multiple versions of IE installed at the
same time. Google for "multiple IE versions windows" and you'll get hits
such as http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
I haven't actually tried this; it's something I've been meaning to do when
I have the time.
C A Upsdell
I have used this technique for quite some time, and it is very useful,
but it has important limitations: for example, Microsoft's conditional
comments are not handled correctly, and using bookmarks makes IE crash.
Using Virtual PC is therefore an important alternative, and one
that M$ repeatedly cites, but the multiple licensing issue is a serious
impediment to its use.
Note that, for the purpose of testing sites with multiple versions of
IE, multiple licensing not only unreasonably increases costs, but in
some cases is infeasible: try going to M$ and asking them to sell you,
say, four copies of Windows 98 so that you can test with IE 4.01, IE
5.01, IE 5.5, and IE 6.0.
Steve Jain
Isn't that why they offer MSDN?
Mark Rae
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>>Note that, for the purpose of testing sites with multiple versions of
>>IE, multiple licensing not only unreasonably increases costs, but in
>>some cases is infeasible: try going to M$ and asking them to sell you,
>>say, four copies of Windows 98 so that you can test with IE 4.01, IE
>>5.01, IE 5.5, and IE 6.0.
>
> Isn't that why they offer MSDN?
Absolutely!
C A Upsdell
More $$$. Again, an unreasonable solution to M$'s inability to make a
standalone version of its browser.
Bo Berglund
Except they have *removed* the old operating systems downloads...
Not even Windows 2000 is there anymore!
Fortunately I have a few disks hanging around but I was going to scrap
them because all of the strange versions were available as
downloads...
Not so anymore so we are screwed yet again. :-(
(I am a 10 year long memeber of MSDN)
Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com