Re: WDSC in VM

Richard,

One of the things that causes windows to go into activation mode is a
new ethernet card (the mac address changed).

There is a way to tell the virtual machine to always the same mac
address.  There is a knowledge base article in the vm-ware forums about
this.

That should take care of that problem.

Bill

richard@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

You can do this. 

Actually I have zipped several master images and I copy them to my laptop 
as needed.  I can always unzip a fresh copy when I need one.

I even have a couple Linux partitions set up for testing. 

Beware of Windows 2003 and Vista though because they will go into 
Activation mode as soon as you copy to a different machine. 

Pain in the butt.

I have been using Win2000 to create portable non-activation demo 
partitions. 

Windows, Mac asks if he can delete your hard drive.  Cancel or 
allow.............. I love the Mac commercials :-)

Regards,
Richard Schoen
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message: 4
date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:16:08 -0500
from: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] WDSC in VM

I'm still trying to get a good feel for whether I can copy off both the
virtual disk drive and the associated server information onto a network
device and then delete the local copy, thus freeing up the space on the
local drive.

The idea is to create a repository of working servers on the network drive
and copy them onto the local drive as needed.  I'm sure I could use the
network drive as my repository, but that's a lot of extra overhead that 
I'd
like to avoid.  Instead, I'd like to simply copy in whichever 
configurations
I need when I need them.