Vista - ANOTHER question about OS licensing

My host machine is running xp pro, my virtual machine is running xp home.
(Both legal copies, both registered) Am I allowed to use the virtual machine
on more than one host machine? For example: Home, work, laptop. I have OEM
versions of xp pro on all three computers (hosts) and I have built a VM using
retail version of xp home.

On Sep 3, 4:46*pm, TThomson <TThom...@xxxxxx>
wrote:Not legally no. The XP retail and OEM license only covers 1 computer.
VPC counts as a computer.

It may be possible to get around it by not running VPC at the same
time on more than 1 computer......or possibly store the .VHD on the
network and booting from there on multiple computers.

"ronald.phillips@xxxxxx" wrote:
I would not use the VPC on more than one machine at the same time. I would
just save the changes made and update the appropriate files on each machine
as needed. For instance, if I make changes at home, run upgrades, test or
install software, etc. Can I just backup the files and copy them to to my
work machine? Everything would remain the same and only be used on one
workstation at a time. Basically I would be able to carry my VPC around on my
thumb drive.

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:58:20 -0700, TThomson
<TThomson@xxxxxx> wrote:
I'd advice against a "thumb" drive. They are not designed to be
constantly written to and will eventually fail.
Instead get yourself a real USB2 connected 2.5" or smaller hard drive
and put your virtual machine on that (VHD and VMC files). They are
dirt cheap nowadays...
Then this drive *is* your installation and can be connected (via USB)
to any host PC running the same VPC2007 version as you are and run
from there.
No problems with duplicated VM:s anymore, your VM is the single one on
your USB drive and if you have a license for it you are set to go.

--
Bo Berglund