To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

[Michael Butash]

Far as I know, M$ OEM's are not transferable in any way, even to VM.  
Yet another kick in the shorts, you get the joy of paying the microsoft 
tax twice, and in theory paying far more than oem license costs.

Having purchased time and time again laptop hardware with pre-paid 
windoze licenses that I am unable to use since I never run it natively, 
I feel pretty justified in piracy just so I can have it around as a 
visio hypervisor/container across the years.  This is where the docker 
principal would be nice if it could be applied to windoze if you really 
only use an app or two ever, never the actual desktop.

-mb


On 04/21/2016 05:21 PM, Keith Smith wrote:
> It is OEM.  What is the solution for getting an image that I can run 
> in VirtualBox?
>
> On 2016-04-20 07:29, Stephen Partington wrote:
>> depends on the version/edition of windows. Most OEM copies are not
>> sold with licencing to be run on a VM but some Enterprise editions do
>> allow for such things.