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On Sat, 3 May 2008 12:48:30 +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> I have a box which has WinXP dual-booting with Gentoo. I would like to |
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> be able to have access to a clone of the existing WinXP installation, |
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> from within Gentoo. The original WinXP partition should be left well |
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> alone, as it is business critical. |
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If you copy it to a VM, you are running it on different hardware. The MS |
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profit-protection system will kick in, requiring you to reactivate it for |
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the VM "hardware". |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Stop metricationists! They are demanding their 454 grammes of flesh, |
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and if we give them 2.54 centimetres they'll take 1.609 kilometres! |
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