Vmware xp activation issue

How to get back the VLK. I have installed windows xp in the boot camp ok. Small hint: when activating by phone, when they start reading the numbers you can just hang up and request an Internet activation. It will work. For those having problems with Vista activation, make sure you have Fusion 1. Hi, Step 4. Install the VMware Tools is not clear. Do I install vmware tools in Mac or in Windows bootcamp? I surfed the net and was told in order to have vmware tools I need vmware workstation.

I checked the download site and I tried to download the vmware workstation in my bootcamp. However, I was not sure if I have to install vmware tools inside bootcamp. Anyway, I tried but it seems like you can only install it in a guest machine.

Can you help? I am considering eliminating the Boot Camp partition on my hard drive, having made an attempt to make sure that all the files there are backed up. Can anyone see a problem with removing the partition and relying on my Fusion virtual machine for all my Windows needs? After clicking on my name, I am prompted whether or not to activate. I click no, and am sent back to the login screen.

Not sure why you are being forced to activate to log in, perhaps you installed long ago and only now are using the VM? This has worked fine for the last 30 or so days. It still works, but with a limited function. However, the limited function is all I will ever need.

Will Windows eventually stop working altogether? Auto Activating might not work for such a old product OR perhaps it has already reached its activation limit. You should be able to choose to Activate via Telephone. Call Microsoft and get an activation key that way The forgot about Licencing and were Audited by MS Once you virtualize that system, the license is no longer valid and you will need to get another solution VLA? Just because you found a workaround for it doesn't mean our friends from Redmond won't call you on it - especially after posting in these forums You're fine as long as you're running it as a guest on the same hardware it came on.

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I share your pain. Your in that same boat at the folks that have upgraded motherboards, or entire storage systems. If enough hardware changes are detected re-activation kicks in. If it weren't for the fact that I think WPA requires followup verification every 6 months?

Yes, technically in violation of the EULA, but you have been acting in good faith; and Microsoft has, in this case, not lived up to their end of the agreement. Because it's a licensing issue. When you move a license of XP from a real machine to a virtual machine inside the real machine the hardware IS different.

It's now virtual nics not real nics. Okay so now that we've established that it's normal for the vmware version of the image of the XP to freak out and want activation the next question is will it activate yes it will and the second and most important question is You cannot move it to a virtual.

It is a legal thing. OEMs are tied to the original hardware. VMWare does not provide the original hardware but rather emulations of the hardware. It's truly not the same thing and thus only if you are licensed to be able to move the XP can you legally do this. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:.

Archived Forums. Sign in to vote. Hi, I am trying to run the same Windows installation natively on my laptop and within VmWare running in Linux. I have setup two hardware profiles in Windows, one for the real hardware called Hardware and one for the VmWare emulated hardware called Virtual. Everything works fine except that each time I boot with a different hardware profile, Windows complains about activation. Do you have any suggestions on how to properly activate both profiles?

I do not believe I am violating the EULA since I am performed one, single installation and I am running Windows on one, single machine using a software layer when running it inside VmWare.

Saturday, September 16, AM. Running a virtual machine counts as running two copies of Windows. I would agree with you if there were two installations of Windows, one traditional and one for VmWare.