Does this mean what I think it means ?

Vista Home Basic and Home Premuim users, don't even think about installing
Vista on a Virtual Machine. It contravenes the End User Licence Agreement
EULA.
(as of December 11, 2006)

"Microsoft Corporation" wrote:



MICROSOFT WINDOWS VISTA HOME BASIC
4. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software
installed on the
licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system.

MICROSOFT WINDOWS VISTA HOME PREMIUM
4. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software
installed on the
licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system.

MICROSOFT WINDOWS VISTA ULTIMATE
6. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may use the software installed
on the
licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system on
the licensed device. If
you do so, you may not play or access content or use applications protected
by any Microsoft digital,
information or enterprise rights management technology or other Microsoft
rights management
services or use BitLocker. We advise against playing or accessing content or
using applications
protected by other digital, information or enterprise rights management
technology or other rights
management services or using full volume disk drive encryption.

I don't know anything about Virtual Machines so am in the dark.
Like a mushroom - you know the story about mushrooms !

Yes, it means exactly what you think it means.

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"LoneWolf" <LoneWolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does this mean what I think it means ?
>
> Vista Home Basic and Home Premuim users, don't even think about installing
> Vista on a Virtual Machine. It contravenes the End User Licence Agreement
> EULA.
> (as of December 11, 2006)

Thanks Richard.

The reason I mentioned it is that Colin & others
have been suggesting that people install their
Vista OS on virtual machines, in certain circumstances.

I repeat, I don't have any idea about virtual machines !

This was from a site I just happened to visit.
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"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

> Yes, it means exactly what you think it means.
>
> --
> Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] rgharper@gmail.com
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> * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
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>
>
> "LoneWolf" <LoneWolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C6C70ED1-9379-4043-99DE-9CBAC6E56483@microsoft.com...
> > Does this mean what I think it means ?
> >
> > Vista Home Basic and Home Premuim users, don't even think about installing
> > Vista on a Virtual Machine. It contravenes the End User Licence Agreement
> > EULA.
> > (as of December 11, 2006)
>
>
>

Richard

I should have said 'Will you please explain what
this means.'

Especially the bits in Ultimate about 'bitlocker', playing (media - rights),
full disk encryption, etc.
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"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

> Yes, it means exactly what you think it means.
>
> --
> Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] rgharper@gmail.com
> * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
> * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
> * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
> * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
>
> "LoneWolf" <LoneWolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C6C70ED1-9379-4043-99DE-9CBAC6E56483@microsoft.com...
> > Does this mean what I think it means ?
> >
> > Vista Home Basic and Home Premuim users, don't even think about installing
> > Vista on a Virtual Machine. It contravenes the End User Licence Agreement
> > EULA.
> > (as of December 11, 2006)
>
>
>

There are three considerations.

1. Will the Home editions run in a virtual machine? Yes.

2. Does Microsoft give product support to it? No.

3. What licenses permit this? Probably MSDN.

Virtual machines are run under Virtual PC, Virtual Server, VMWare,
Parallels, Xen, and other virtualization products. The provisions of the
EULA are not restricted to Microsoft virtualization products.

I have no idea why there is this restriction. One would think that MS would
be perfectly happy to sell copies of the Home editions that were intended to
be used in virtual machines. Perhaps this will be relaxed as the
one-transfer rule was a couple of months ago.

"LoneWolf" <LoneWolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C6C70ED1-9379-4043-99DE-9CBAC6E56483@microsoft.com...
> Does this mean what I think it means ?
>
> Vista Home Basic and Home Premuim users, don't even think about installing
> Vista on a Virtual Machine. It contravenes the End User Licence Agreement
> EULA.
> (as of December 11, 2006)
>
>