Windows Vista Licensing Question

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dtrimble

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Ok, I understand Vista Basic, Vista Home and Vista Home Premium do *NOT* allow for use in a virtual machine. I learned that the hard way today when my Vista Home Premium disabled itself after I installed Parallels to run on my boot camp partition. It ran fine when booted directly, but stopped functioning as soon as it ran through Parallels, telling me it detected new hardware.

That said, I'm not clear on what I need. I know I must buy an upgrade to either Vista Business or Vista Ultimate in order to be able to run it through a VM. But I will not be getting rid of my boot camp partition.

Do I need to have TWO licenses -- one Vista Business for the physical installation on its own partition and a second Vista Business license for running it through Parallels?

I asked Microsoft's authorization line, and the clueless person didn't even know that Business and Ultimate are allowed use through a VM, so I'm hoping someone in this community will have the accurate answer I need.

Kind thanks,
Dan
 
I did have to get a second code from the authorisation centre, which they would give after some explaining.

Salamat
 
No charge at all.....they just gave me the code over the phone. (As you've found it does need some explaining, but if you keep repeating that it's only on the one machine...)

Salamat
 
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I'm having the same problem. Installed windows xp home onto bootcamp on new imac running leopard 10.5 which worked fine. Then installed parallels 3.0 with difficulty. Windows xp reinstalled and running, but now it says I need to reactivate within 30 days by getting new key. Bootcamp also won't load anymore-i get error saying no boot disk. I tried calling MIcrosoft support but they said it was illegal for me to be reinstalling on another computer and refused to give me another key. Any ideas?
 
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