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  • 1.  OEM activated Vista on VMware

    Posted Sep 02, 2009 07:56 AM

    Hallo,

    I have a question on the OEM activation within a virtual machine.

    With Windows XP there was a technology with the name OEM Activation 1.0. If the hardware vendor prepared the BIOS, Windows XP is activated any time. To use this feature in a virtual machine, it was possible to set the option SMBIOS.reflectHost = "TRUE".

    Since Windows Vista the technology is named OEM Activation 2.x and much more complexer.

    Is there a possibility of using these also in a virtual machine? Can anybody confirm that this also works? Or is there a possibility of making this possible?

    Because I couldn't find anything on my search, I hope that you can help me along. Am grateful for every note :smileyhappy:

    Hugebuff