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nerd0795
July 17th, 2008, 05:59 PM
Wow, I'm about to get a new computer soon (probably a Toshiba Satellite or maybe a macbook because, I'm gonna be a computer repair dude. I will need the experience of mac os x.) I'm gonna use virtualbox to run either my old disk of Windows me or Windows Vista. Then I'm gonna go to the winfixer site and all that stuff and download lot's of viruses, then clean it out. If i fail to do so I just revert changed on my virtual disk. It's gonna be fun lol.

Here's the copyright question. If I get a macbook I will buy Vista and I'm wondering is it legal to have it installed twice on 1 computer? One for my main stuffs. The other for virtualbox madness. Is it legal to install it twice. I live in Canada.
LaRoza
July 17th, 2008, 09:45 PM
For Vista, you are technically not allowed to have it on a VM, so the question is moot :-)
rockface
July 17th, 2008, 10:12 PM
For Vista, you are technically not allowed to have it on a VM, so the question is moot :-)

Not to contradict or question LaRoza (Of Borg?), did not Microsoft backtrack on which versions of Vista can be installed within a virtual machine? I think both Business and Ultimate can be.
schauerlich
July 17th, 2008, 10:15 PM
For Vista, you are technically not allowed to have it on a VM, so the question is moot :-)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=157

Yes you can.
MaxIBoy
July 18th, 2008, 03:09 AM
There's an update on that article which says you can't run the home version in a virtualizer.
LaRoza
July 18th, 2008, 03:22 AM
Not to contradict or question LaRoza (Of Borg?), did not Microsoft backtrack on which versions of Vista can be installed within a virtual machine? I think both Business and Ultimate can be.

I am not a lawyer, so they could have I guess.

If you do install in a VM, I don't know if it counts. I guess you will find out.
MaxIBoy
July 18th, 2008, 05:15 AM
Can't you point a virtualizer toward a Windows partition on the hard drive? I wonder if that's legal.
hansdown
July 18th, 2008, 06:09 AM
Good points all.
nerd0795
July 18th, 2008, 09:37 PM
Yay, no I have to spend $50 more on Windows Vista to be able to run it in a virtualmachine. Yeah great job Microsoft. Now i have to earn another 50 bucks now, I'm extremlly pissed.
myusername
July 18th, 2008, 11:53 PM
you could always just be a prostitute lol
MaxIBoy
July 20th, 2008, 01:11 PM
Sell your children. If you don't have any, make some, quick!
sixblades
July 21st, 2008, 01:51 PM
I lol'd.
Tim0miT
August 1st, 2008, 03:56 PM
surely its OK in a VW, heres my thinking on this...

ok, so if you have it installed on the actual HDD and on a virtual HDD in OSX there is no way you can be using both installs at the same time

and even if it is iligal they will never know because the HDD version of vista and the VM versoin of vista will have teh same IP

go ahead and install on both:guitar: