<div class="gmail_quote">On 15 July 2010 13:22, Camilo Mesias <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:camilo@mesias.co.uk">camilo@mesias.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Paul Tew <<a href="mailto:binarybod@gmail.com">binarybod@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I have a licensed copy of XP which I use in the VM. It's the Vista Licence<br>
> which came with the laptop that I can't get a refund for. I'm not too<br>
> bothered because I can use that licence for a further VM which will come in<br>
> useful for some testing if I need to do any... Just for the record I don't<br>
> run any unlicensed software, ever. As a police officer it would be a tad<br>
> hypocritical I think.<br>
<br>
</div>Does that work then? I wasn't sure if a Windows license that came<br>
bundled with some hardware could be transferred to other hardware (or<br>
virtual hardware)...<br>
<br>
It seems morally right but maybe not legally so!<br>
<br>
-Cam</blockquote><div> </div><div>You may be right, I haven't read the licensing (because I haven't even </div><div>considered creating the machine yet) but as it's an OEM version it's</div><div>unlikely to allow installation in a VM even though the VM is running</div>
<div>inside the same hardware the OEM version WAS meant for...</div><div><br></div><div>Paul</div></div>