[clue] VMWare question

[Andrew Diederich]

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Richard Knechtel <richard.knechtel at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> I am running the free version of  VMWare server v2 in Fedora 17. I
> created a vmware image of my old WIndows XP system and fired it up
> under VMWare. However any program I had installed in it acts like it
> isn't registered and wants me to "re register".  I have been
> searching and searching for anything similar on the web to this and
> have come up with nothing. Does anyone know if there is some setting
> or something so you don't basically have to re register every single
> applications installed in the guest os?
>

Unless the vm is setup to look very much like the original vm, hardware
wise, programs and XP will decide you're on a different box. That could
cause them to ask you to re-register. When I was trying xp in different
vm's I had to keep going through the "mother may I" every time I installed
it.

-- 
Andrew Diederich
andrewdied at gmail.com
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