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Microsoft allows more Vista virtualization
by Todd Ritter Jan 21st 2008 at 6:00PM
Microsoft issued a press release today stating, among other things, that Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions can now be run in a virtual environment. This is good news for those of us who don't want to buy the more expensive editions of Vista just to run it virtualized on our Mac or Linux machines. We checked the EULA for Vista Home Premium today, and it still says you can't virtualize it, but they will be updating that soon since this announcement wasn't supposed to go live until tomorrow.
Virtualization basically means you can run Vista in an intermediate piece of software so that it's contained and separate from your base OS. If you have a copy of Vista lying around and would like to virtualize it, try Parallels or VMware Fusion for Mac, or VirtualBox for Linux.
[via ZDNet]
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Todd said 6:11PM on 1-21-2008
"...We checked the EULA for Vista Home Premium today, and it still says you can't virtualize it..."
And looking even further it says Microsoft has zero obligation to allow you to use any if their products to a level of consumer satisfaction above "not fraud".
http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/useterms/
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Kroc Camen said 3:17AM on 1-22-2008
So, does this mean you can change the RAM back and forth in the VM and not have it deactivate? Or run two hardware profiles so that you can boot Vista in Bootcamp, /and/ a VM?
Because that's all that matters, really.
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