On Sat, 3 May 2008 12:48:30 +0100, Mick wrote:

> I have a box which has WinXP dual-booting with Gentoo. I would like to
> be able to have access to a clone of the existing WinXP installation,
> from within Gentoo. The original WinXP partition should be left well
> alone, as it is business critical.

If you copy it to a VM, you are running it on different hardware. The MS
profit-protection system will kick in, requiring you to reactivate it for
the VM "hardware".


--
Neil Bothwick

Stop metricationists! They are demanding their 454 grammes of flesh,
and if we give them 2.54 centimetres they'll take 1.609 kilometres!