[Wylug-discuss] Running Windows with VirtualBox

[Smylers]

A J Cole writes:

> Smylers,
> 
> > Hello. I've bought a new laptop, to run Ubuntu on. It'll come with
> > Windows 7 on it, and it might be nice to be able to run Windows 7 in
> > VirtualBox.
> > 
> > Any guidance for how to do this? Or more specifically, for anything
> > I should do to snaffle the Windows image from the computer before
> > splatting Linux all over it?
> 
> OEM licenses are hardware specific and (most/all?) won't run when
> virtualised.  You need a retail or volume licensed copy of Windows.

Thanks. Wow, I hadn't considered that -- I was naïvely thinking that
buying a computer plus Windows would give me the right to do that.

So if I want to have the option of both available, and don't wish to buy
a second copy of Windows, I have to run Windows as the host OS and have
Linux virtualized inside it, yes?

> I use Ghost (or whatever it is currently called) to retain a
> restorable setup.

Thanks.

Smylers