From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:55:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071223105511.40cbaa82@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712230813.35837.tcoulon@decoulon.ch>
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:13:35 +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> You are right that XP should work - or you can install it on a virtual
> machine. I am not sure what advantages you get from running vmware from
> a partition (unless of course you also want to dual boot).
I doubt that would work. The virtual machine identifies itself as
different "hardware" from the host, so the MS profit-protection would
kick in, claiming you were trying to run the same copy of the OS on two
different computers.
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Neil Bothwick
All wight - Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-23 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-22 0:10 [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death maxim wexler
2007-12-22 6:11 ` Thierry de Coulon
2007-12-22 23:55 ` maxim wexler
2007-12-23 7:13 ` Thierry de Coulon
2007-12-23 10:55 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2007-12-23 19:04 ` maxim wexler
2008-01-15 18:38 ` Mick
2008-01-16 1:16 ` Iain Buchanan
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