"Andrew McLaren" wrote:

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> You mention "Vista home"; I'm not sure if you mean, literally, Vista Home
> Edition (either Basic or Premium). Vista Home edition runs fine in a VM,
> from the technical perspective. But there is a stupid and offensive
> licensing restriction in the Vista Home EULA, which prevents you from
> running it as a guest in a VM. It is purely a licensing restiction, there is
> no technical barrier. It applies to Virtual PC, VMWare, Xen, etc - all
> virtualisation solutions. If you have an MSDN subscription, you can run a
> Vista Home editoin in a VM, for development purposes.
>
> Regarding activation, XP and Vista in a VM behave exactly teh same as on a
> physical machine: after a short grace period, you must activate Windows in
> order to keep it running. This applies to VMWare and Virtual PC, and all
> other virtualisation products.
>
> Hope that answers some of your questions.
>
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au
>
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So if I understand correctly, that Microsoft conceder running virtual OS's
will not be supported if you called Microsoft for support? Am I understanding
that correctly?