Can a pre-inbstalled windows be put inside a VM?

[Fintan]

I did this in September of last year

[SteveRiley]

Wow! That's amazing, and I'm astonished (and apparently also wrong). I would never have suspected that a VM would present the underlying hardware's SLIC table to the OEM key validation process.

[Fintan]

I am np expert but I believe the converter takes care of that.

One note of cation though. Depnding on your CPU, you have to play with how many cores the converter uses for the conversion.

[SteveRiley]

If you just happen to have another machine also running VMware Player, and you just happen to have a spare 120 days to conduct an experiment, then please [strike]xcopy[/strike] (sorry, old habits die hard) rsync your VMDK over to that other computer. Start the VM and observe what happens. Do it again after 120 days. If SLMGR doesn't gripe, I'll be floored.

[Fintan]

I do in fact have my old desktop, which I haven't started for ages. It also has vmplayer on board but what do you mean by:

rsync your VMDK

Sorry for my ignorance.

[SteveRiley]

Sorry...my bad for lapsing to geek-speak. rsync is a very flexible and fast file transfer utility, useful to know if you have a habit of moving lots of files around because of its delta-sync capabilities. A VMDK is a VMware virtual machine.

Oh, and SLMGR is the Windows software license manager.

[Fintan]

I knew what VMDK was but have never used rsync. I'll have to try that over the weekend.

Cheers