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Can you use the same VPC VM on different computers?

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 04/20/2009
From: frank peterson <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

I've been using Virtual PC 2007 and a Windows 2000 guest and the
Internet Explorer 8 Application Compatibility VPC Image Microsoft
provides for free (it has a time limit, but they update it with new
ones) on a XP machine (host).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en

But I've been wanting to have my own XP VM and was wondering if I
bought a license for a VM and activated it and then in 2yrs I got a
new computer, I should be able to still use that VM right? After all
its the same VM, although its running on a new computer/host, it
should still work.

Also what if I wanted to use that VM on my home computer on a USB
drive and then take it work, and work on it there. Its still the same
VM even though the computers/hosts would be totally different hardware
(cpus, ram, etc). I should be able to do that right?

I dont like having to use a Windows 2000 VM because more and more apps
are dropping support, but I dont want to have a license of XP that
isnt portable in a VM.

Basically I dont want to buy a license of XP if it wont work like
those 2 examples I mentioned, after all its a VM so it needs to be
portable across computers/hosts.

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Re: Can you use the same VPC VM on different computers?

Sent: 04/21/2009
From: "Mark Rae [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

"frank peterson" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

You should not have any issues with transferring a VM from one host to
another, unless the CPUs are radically different e.g. Intel on one host and
AMD on the other...

--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

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> Basically I don't want to buy a license of XP if it won't work like
> those 2 examples I mentioned, after all it's a VM so it needs to be
> portable across computers/hosts.

Re: Can you use the same VPC VM on different computers?

Sent: 04/24/2009
From: Andreas Ziegler <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

frank peterson wrote:

I'm doing it on a regular basis. Just plug the USB drive and create a
new VM on the new host machine, reusing the shared disks. Just take care
that you shut down the guest machines completely before starting them on
the second host. You need to have a XP license for the guest machine
itself, not for the host(s) you are running it on.

Regards,
Andreas

--
"Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft;"

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> Also what if I wanted to use that VM on my home computer on a USB
> drive and then take it work, and work on it there. Its still the same
> VM even though the computers/hosts would be totally different hardware
> (cpus, ram, etc). I should be able to do that right?

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