Re: WDSC in VM

[Bill Brosch <bbrosch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
> RJS Software Systems Inc. 
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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.