VirtualPC 2007 Question
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Now that would be a excellent feature. I'd even pay for a version of VirtualPC that had it.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
Microsoft wouldn't do that for licensing issues.
Which I still don't understand at all. Why not make the virtual machine locked to the same client (not server) OS that it was created from? This would enable me to test software without mucking up my stable install (including Microsoft software!)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
Microsoft wouldn't do that for licensing issues.
Which I still don't understand at all. Why not make the virtual machine locked to the same client (not server) OS that it was created from? This would enable me to test software without mucking up my stable install (including Microsoft software!)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Because the smart people would not want to test software on their OSes and MS can make money selling multiple OSes to people who do a lot of development and testing. It's a ripoff for sure. ;)
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Because the smart people would not want to test software on their OSes and MS can make money selling multiple OSes to people who do a lot of development and testing. It's a ripoff for sure. ;)
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
Because the smart people would not want to test software on their OSes and MS can make money selling multiple OSes to people who do a lot of development and testing.
Microsoft doesn't make more money this way. MSDN gives you plenty of licenses and I often created virtual machines without ever registering the OS. (And even if you run out of registrations, you can get more with a simple phone call.) The only reason they don't do this is they are unimaginative paranoid pin heads.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
Because the smart people would not want to test software on their OSes and MS can make money selling multiple OSes to people who do a lot of development and testing.
Microsoft doesn't make more money this way. MSDN gives you plenty of licenses and I often created virtual machines without ever registering the OS. (And even if you run out of registrations, you can get more with a simple phone call.) The only reason they don't do this is they are unimaginative paranoid pin heads.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Joe Woodbury wrote:
The only reason they don't do this is they are unimaginative paranoid pin heads.
Mostly unimaginative.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
Because the smart people would not want to test software on their OSes and MS can make money selling multiple OSes to people who do a lot of development and testing.
Microsoft doesn't make more money this way. MSDN gives you plenty of licenses and I often created virtual machines without ever registering the OS. (And even if you run out of registrations, you can get more with a simple phone call.) The only reason they don't do this is they are unimaginative paranoid pin heads.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Isn't what you're doing technically illegal? Microsoft should take themselves t court for giving you the new registration code. :)
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Isn't what you're doing technically illegal? Microsoft should take themselves t court for giving you the new registration code. :)
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
Isn't what you're doing technically illegal?
No, it's part of MSDN. You get 10 activations, but you can't undo an activation after having used one. Microsoft itself advises that you call them up.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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VMWare does (assuming you have the right version). Parallels probably does. The Mac version of Parallels does something like that at any rate.
Kevin McFarlane wrote:
Parallels probably does
Parallels does not, though they allow you to image an existing drive and "add" as an additional drive to the system, they do not directly image a physical to virtual image. They claim they are working on it.
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Kevin McFarlane wrote:
Parallels probably does
Parallels does not, though they allow you to image an existing drive and "add" as an additional drive to the system, they do not directly image a physical to virtual image. They claim they are working on it.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
I thought perhaps the "Transporter" mode for the Mac was effectively doing this and that perhaps the PC version would as well. I've not used any of these VMs so I'm just theorising based on snippets I've seen on web sites.
Kevin
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I thought perhaps the "Transporter" mode for the Mac was effectively doing this and that perhaps the PC version would as well. I've not used any of these VMs so I'm just theorising based on snippets I've seen on web sites.
Kevin
Kevin McFarlane wrote:
perhaps the "Transporter" mode for the Mac was effectively doing this
It may be. The windows version makes it quite clear that they do not support this model yet, and the image drive option is only for "additional" drives, not the main boot VM drive. However, they "claim" they are working on an "importer" from other VM environments, in which case they could bypass this by importing from someone who does support this ability.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)