[ltp] Installing from Recovery CDs in VirtualBox

[Micha Feigin]

On Sat, 30 May 2009 19:18:33 +0200
Michael Gaber <Michael.Gaber@gmx.net> wrote:

> Yves-Alexis Perez schrieb:
> > On sam, 2009-05-30 at 13:06 -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> >> Has anyone installed from the Recovery CDs?  Or if not, restored the recovery
> >> partition (and possibly the OS), then built an installation CD (perhaps with
> >> BartPE) that worked with VirtualBox?
> > 
> > I don't think that would be possible, and I don't think the Windows
> > license for your Thinkpad would allow you that.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
> i don't see why installing the XP you own inside a VM should not be 
> allowed as long as you don't install it inside a vm that is running on a 
> system using the same serial
> 

Because the xp you own (assuming that it came with the machine) is an oem copy
that you are not allowed to transfer to another computer. I don't know if a
virtual machine counts as another computer and wether installing it twice, once
by itself and once inside a virtaul machine counts as two installs though.

> Regards Michael