Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo?

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 23:40 -0400, C Lee Davis wrote:
> Daevid Vincent wrote:
> > Why does everyone always assume people are pirates or in search of
> > warez. I don't see why someone couldn't put up a copy of XP or Vista or
> > whatever that is unactivated, yet all installed and ready to go
> > (everything but the CPU is emulated in VMWare, so it could be possible,
> > and even the XP CPU is a generic x86 compatible, not like it's optimized
> > AFAIK). Then one could just plop in their key to activate it for reals
> > to get "WGA certifed".
> > 
> Because, as far as I can tell (and IANAL), that would be illegal.  I don't have
> a license to distribute Windows XP.

hm, don't know about the distribution side, but you can sure install any
version of Vista you like, from the one Vista DVD without a license /
activation.  Only the one you have a license for can run for more than
30 days (or some number) though.

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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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