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In the case of VMware, you don't even need a full-blown copy of VMware on the other PC to open up those files and start the virtual machine. In that case, you get to experience one of the chief benefits of VMs: you can just move them (copy the files) to another computer.
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Unless of course all of your software and information is loaded into a VM rather than into the operating system that was installed on the bare metal. This is bad news if everything you need (your data, applications, bookmarks, etc.) is on a notebook that has to be sent back for repairs. Over the years, most of my notebook PCs have had to go in for one repair or another. So, will copying a VM from one physical computer to another wake up the Microsoft licensing Gods? And, why would you do such a thing? One reason I like to have this option at my disposal is that I beat up my notebook computers pretty badly.
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Even the folks at VMware - a company whose solutions are impacted by Microsoft's anti-piracy policies - aren't exactly sure how it works (and they've studied it).Īttempts to install or even run an already-activated copy of Windows on a computer other than the one it was originally married to should, if Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage software is working properly, be met by a dialog like the one below (generated by Vista).
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While Microsoft's will talk in generalities about how its fingerprinting algorithm works, the actual code is a secret.
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Each computer must have it's own license and to make sure that each unique copy of Windows is somehow married to a unique computer, WGA tries to establish a unique signature or thumbprint for your computer that's based on its hardware configuration. What did I mean? Under the guise of Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program, Windows includes an anti-piracy technology that prevents software pirates from installing one copy of Windows on many computers. In my last post - the one that may have caused some confusion - I talked about how the act of copying a Windows virtual machine from one computer to another might awaken the licensing Gods at Microsoft. The fact that an entire VM is stored in a handful of files means something else: they're easily copied and/or cloned.
Given the way VMs involve the idea of software pretending to be hardware, it should come as no suprise to you that when you create a virtual machine (for example, one that runs a copy of Windows XP or Windows Vista), the whole enchilada is stored in just a handful of files that live on the hard disk of your computer. There are many benefits of running in VMs vs. You can install an Intel-compatible operating system on it (like Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, etc.) and then install applications on top of that just as you would if the operating system was installed on actual PC, or, on what the virtual machine folks refer to as "bare metal." In other words, you can use VMware Workstation to create a software-based instance of an Intel-based PC (which is why they call it "virtual") and then you can treat that instance or "virtual machine" (VM) as though it were a real hardware-based PC or "real machine".
Virtualization products like VMware Workstation and Microsoft's Virtual PC can, with software alone, emulate the hardware of an Intel-based PC (other hardware too, but we'll focus on Intel-based PCs). First, a quick bit on how virtual machine software works (in case you're new to this). I probably wasn't clear regarding the scenarios I had in mind and thus some (but not much confusion).
The reason I'm writing this is that, going back to my last blog entry regarding VMware Workstation 6 (the latest release of VMware Workstation), the TalkBack's disputed my assertion that moving a virtual machine that has Windows as its operating system from one system could be a jarring enough of a hardware change that it would " invariably awaken the licensing Gods at Microsoft." This blog entry is simply to clear things up regarding virtual machine software (like VMware), the way it can make clones of existing virtual machines, and what if any impact such cloning has when it involves software that requires some form of online activation like Microsoft's operating system and Office software do.
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