Having fun with KVM

[Michael Butash]

I asked a buddy that does more windoze admin, and he said that oem 
licenses are not transferable, and their legalese seemed to say the same 
thing seeing how transferable it is.  This means (to me at least) even 
into a vm, where the "hardware spec" changes, and will throw validation 
(ie. technically t thinks you are pulling a fast one to relocate it to a 
new pc... sorta).  I've not challenged the notion to call them and deal 
with their activation sweatshop, ymmv.

I tried this with win7, doing a p2v on an old laptop into vmware 
workstation, and activation kicked immediately calling me a dirty 
pirate, even though I've bought more than enough laptops with licenses 
(it included) and never used them.  So I just pirated a copy off usenet 
due to their draconian restrictions with activation gutted - problem solved.

It just makes me hate them more seeing you can't even use a purchased 
copy on the system you bought if it is just in a hypervisor to demote it 
to test system (as it should be).  How dare you!

This other thing with win8 the efi booting, not even sure you can boot 
it with a legacy bios, or an old pc.  I figure by this point it's such a 
pig, it won't work effectively on an old system anyways to be worth the 
hassle...  Rather just stay with my old slipstreamed xp image from 10 
years ago as it's only good for visio to me regardless.

-mb


On 09/26/2014 10:29 AM, techlists at phpcoderusa.com wrote:
> On 2014-09-26 07:59, Michael Butash wrote:
>> It wants *secure* efi booting likely, not sure windoze8 will boot
>> without it in that capacity.  I think not, but I've only ran it long
>> enough to update the bios and wipe my laptop.  Wouldn't surprise me if
>> they key the "backup" to your laptop's efi data the trust is built on.
>>
>> I'd thought about doing this, as my laptop came with win8 pro, having
>> to pay the dell micro$oft tax, figured it'd be worth restoring to a vm
>> as at least a more modern visio hypervisor than xp.  Then I looked up
>> their licensing, and found it wouldn't really allow me to port it over
>> as an oem version, which just reignited the vitriol toward them and
>> their useless nature I still end up paying for.  Thanks Dell.
>>
>> You're likely technically in the same boat, not sure they'd support
>> you either.  If you really need windoze, you get to pay again - yay!
>>
>> -mb