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    From Marc Heusser@marc.heusser@CHEERSheusser.comMERCIALSPAMMERS.invalid to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, April 09, 2006 17:59:59
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    I'll get my Mac Book Pro by Easter:
    Will I be able to use the installation CD's from Virtual PC version 7
    (the one including Windows XP, has a licence number, but no separate CD
    - two CD's labelled Virtual PC) to install Windows XP with Boot Camp,
    and also using Q?
    And if so, what do I need to achieve that?
    Or do I have to get a copy of Windows XP (eg site license) on a CD and
    just use my own license number?
    I'd hate to buy another copy of Windows XP :-)

    TIA

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  • From Michelle Steiner@michelle@michelle.org to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, April 09, 2006 13:21:35
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    In article <marc.heusser-98A3C5.17595909042006@idnews.unizh.ch>,
    Marc Heusser <marc.heusser@CHEERSheusser.comMERCIALSPAMMERS.invalid>
    wrote:

    Will I be able to use the installation CD's from Virtual PC version 7
    (the one including Windows XP, has a licence number, but no separate
    CD - two CD's labelled Virtual PC) to install Windows XP with Boot
    Camp, and also using Q?

    It all depends on whether that installation disk set allows you to
    install Windows XP separately from Virtual PC. It also depends on
    whether it checks for Virtual PC being installed.

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  • From hrh1818@howardrh@westerncom.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, April 09, 2006 17:40:33
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    What about the other question? Did you activate your copies of
    windows when you used it with Virtual PC? Microsift can get pretty
    cranky about running one copy of Windows XP on two different computers.

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  • From neillmassello@neillmassello@earthlink.net (Neill Massello) to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, April 10, 2006 19:54:49
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    Marc Heusser <marc.heusser@CHEERSheusser.comMERCIALSPAMMERS.invalid>
    wrote:

    I'll get my Mac Book Pro by Easter:
    Will I be able to use the installation CD's from Virtual PC version 7
    (the one including Windows XP, has a licence number, but no separate CD
    - two CD's labelled Virtual PC) to install Windows XP with Boot Camp,
    and also using Q?
    And if so, what do I need to achieve that?

    If possible at all, it would at least take some hacking. For one thing,
    the Windows XP included with VPC doesn't come in the form of a bootable
    Windows CD but as a virtual hard disk file, so you couldn't use the
    standard Boot Camp method of installation. Q uses its own qcow or raw
    images rather than VPC's disk image format. It's probably possible to
    extract the contents of the vhd file to a FAT32 or NTFS file system, but
    I don't know if anybody has done it. Even if you could extract a natively-bootable XP installation from the VPC image file, it might
    refuse to activate because it would detect the fact that it wasn't
    running in a VPC virtual machine.


    Or do I have to get a copy of Windows XP (eg site license) on a CD and
    just use my own license number?

    I don't know the details of Microsoft's copy-protection measures, but my
    guess is that the serial number for a VPC OEM version of Windows XP
    wouldn't work on a site copy of XP.

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