[TriLUG] rdesktop any good?

[Israel J. Pattison]

Some OEM licensed Windows installations are tied to the system BIOS.  These
Windows installs must boot on bare metal in order to retrieve it's
activation code out of BIOS.  You cannot turn these installations into VMs
with the VMware converter.  Nor can you run these installations in VMware
from another operating system.  My office system (Dell Optiplex GX620) is
like this.  If I were to ever try booting a vm based on that install I would
get a blue screen of death.

Israel

On 3/19/08, Christopher L Merrill <chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
>
> Ron Joffe wrote:
> > The easiest way to do this is to load your original machine with it's
> original
> > windows (or not blow it away as soon as you get it home). Then utilize
> > vmware's converter software to image that machine. Then you have a fully
> > working vm, although it might require re-activation, it should be good
> to go.
>
>
> Last time I checked, that was an expensive proposition.  But it looks like
> VMware has the basic version available for free!  Wow, that's great!
>
> Off to download...
>
>
>
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