Virtualizing Windows on Ubuntu

[john.abreau-3flU0AWMlV4AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (John Abreau)]

I looked up my old email from back then, and it turns out
we never actually got an answer from Microsoft.

The engineer's department manager decided that the cost
of the XP license was less than the cost of the employee
time and effort it would take to get a definitive answer,
and the lowered risk justified the expense.

So basically, FUD won in the end.


Don Levey wrote:
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>> This question came up at work last year, and as I recall, Microsoft
>> had claimed that the OEM license for a laptop could not be used for a
>> VM, and that we had to purchase a separate XP license for each VM we
>> create.
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> It sounds like the key, then, is to run Windows natively and Linux
> inside Virtualbox.  It doesn't seem ideal if the Linux image is where
> you'll spend most of your time, but it's the way to avoid yet a second
> MS licensing fee.
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>  -Don
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