XP iso for virtual machine

[E.S. Rosenberg]

IIRC running XP inside a VM is illegal by definition (the license doesn't
allow it), no-one ever cared.

By now XP is not being sold at all, during win 7 sales you could purchase
windows 7 professional with a downgrade option to windows XP through
enterprise channels, I don't think that exists for windows 8 since MS
intends to cease support in 2014 and a lot of the hardware in modern
computers is simply not supported under XP....

That said the XP license structure did sort of tolerate transferring the
OEM license from one computer to another as long as there was no more than
one computer running with the license (MS officially didn't like it, but it
was tolerated or maybe they were even told by court to put up with it).

If you own an XP license that came with some computer and you still have an
in-tact license sticker I don't think anyone is going to make a big deal
out of you using it on a vm as long as the original machine is
decommissioned/reinstalled with an "other os"(r).

Regardless of what install disk you already have you should get yourself an
as patched as possible ISO (ie. SP3 + patches if possible), iirc you can do
this with a tool called nlite (it allows you take an install disk an
'slipstream' servicepacks & patches into it to create a new burnable iso of
fully patched windows).

Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו


2013/2/8 vordoo <vordoo at yahoo.com>

>
> On 2013-02-08 01:19, Micha Feigin wrote:
>
> I do not know about buying XP, I believe that it is only still available
> for some corporate clients, not individuals. I think that there is a way to
> migrate an existing installation to a virtual machine, which may be a way
> to use your cd. https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=51203
>
> As it appears, the problem is, he has no existing installation to migrate
> from. At least not legally.
> :-)
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