Re: VMWare & WinXP

[Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com>]

As was stated in the original post, this IS an OEM version of the
software. That OEM license is NOT good on the virtual hardware being
presented to XP's activation app. IT WILL NOT WORK.

You can call Microsoft for a new activation key SOMETIMES, but often
this doesn't work either and you will actually have to open a service
ticket to resolve the issue (as I did with my thinkpad).

You will also need to remove this licensed copy of XP from the latop
BEFORE installing it in the virtual machine. Personally, I have vmware
running on SuSE 10 and it works well - and as I said, I went through
all of these pains to get here.

On 1 Dec 2005 22:33:31 -0000, me () mkujrfgv com <me () mkujrfgv com> wrote:
> I run VMWare on XP as well. Installing XP into a VMWare virtual machine,
> then activating the OS has always worked fine for me.
>
> You may experience problems if you are using the same, single retail license
> or OEM key to register the OS on the virtual machine that you have installed
> on the laptop.
>
> Try another lic. key, be sure the copy of XP you are installing in the
> correct type for the key (retail,OEM,volume), and be sure the key has not
> been used on another computer that has already been activated (only applies
> if retail or OEM).
>
> Hope this helps...