RE: VMWare & WinXP

["Beauford, Jason" <jbeauford () EightInOnePet com>]

If you can use WS03, you can still download an EVAL Copy of WS03 if
that'll work for you.  It'll give you 180 days.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/trial/default.mspx

JMB

 

        |  -----Original Message-----
        |  From: Brian Loe [mailto:knobdy () gmail com] 
        |  Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 11:22 AM
        |  To: Jason T. Hallahan
        |  Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
        |  Subject: Re: VMWare & WinXP
        |  
        |  Are you saying you're trying to use the same copy of 
        |  XP for both the host and the virtual machine? If so, 
        |  it won't work and you would be violating your 
        |  license. Each virtual machine, and the host, will 
        |  need its own copy of XP.
        |  
        |  Further, the reason you have to activate it again in 
        |  the VM is because XP is seeing the VM hardware - not 
        |  the hardware that was originally activated with that 
        |  license. I can tell you from personal experience 
        |  that you are in for a nightmare getting it activated 
        |  for anything beyond your original, host machine.
        |  
        |  On 11/28/05, Jason T. Hallahan <jthallah () gmail com> wrote:
        |  > Hello and good day,
        |  >
        |  > I recently purchased a laptop from Dell with Win 
        |  XP Professional on it 
        |  > for the purpose of setting up a VMWare virtual network for 
        |  > honeypot/pen-testing purposes. However, when I go 
        |  to install my new 
        |  > copy of XP (which is the host OS of my box) in a 
        |  virtual machine, it 
        |  > won't activate. I tried calling Microsoft and 
        |  going through the 
        |  > automated process on the phone, but it says my 
        |  installation is 
        |  > invalid. Is there any way around this (I am not 
        |  trying to cheat 
        |  > Microsoft here) or any way to speak to a Microsoft 
        |  representation to 
        |  > explain my situation? Any help would be greatly 
        |  appreciated.
        |  >
        |