[wplug] Any vmware users?

[Zach Paine]

This sounds like a fun project for the installfest ;-)  Seriously 
though, you could probably get some people to help you along if you had 
questions or ran into problems.

	-Zach

On Thursday, July 11, 2002, at 09:25 AM, J Aaron Farr wrote:

> (Reply below)
>
> --- harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu wrote:
>> Sometime in July J Aaron Farr assaulted keyboard and produced...
>>
>> |(Comment inline)
>> |
>> |--- Richard Harris <ftumph at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> |> Is the Sony restore CD tied to the Vaio hardware?
>> |>
>> |
>> |Unfortunately yes.  Very much so actually.  Just to check, I tried 
>> the disks
>> on
>> |another Vaio (slightly different model) and it didn't work.
>> |
>>
>> this may sound like a silly question but...
>>
>> ok you purchased a laptop with a xp license right? so i guess the eula 
>> says
>> you have to
>> install it on that computer or something like that right? and the 
>> version
>> of xp sony gave you wont install on a virtual machine running on that
>> computer? would it be wrong of you to request an oem copy of windows 
>> xp from
>> sony that can be installed on any computer... or rather any virtual 
>> machine
>> running on your sony viao?
>>
>> there is probably something in the eula that says you cannot do this, 
>> but
>> it seems as though you have a license of xp that you cannot transfer 
>> to a
>> different machine if you want.
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> john harrold
>
> I haven't check the EULA in a long time, and I'll look at it tonight to 
> confirm
> what it says.  The thing is, the copy of XP itself is restricted such 
> that it
> WON'T install on anything other than the particular model it was made 
> for, and
> even then, it just wipes the drives clean and reinstalls.
>
> I haven't tried the restore CDs on a virtual drive yet.  Last night I 
> finished
> re-partioning the hard drive for Linux and tonight I'll do some 
> installs.  I'll
>  post the result when I try to get vmware to either recognize the other 
> XP
> partition or see if the restore CDs will recognize the virtual drive.
>
> jaaron
>
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