The Vista Enterprise version license provides for installing Vista on four
virtual PCs.
"David B." <> wrote in message
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> There is no such thing as deactivation. If you have 2 licenses, one on the
> host, one for the guest, you'll need to use the phone activation method.
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>>I have Vista installed in a dual boot environment on my machine at the
>> moment. I am doing development in VS2005, with Office 2003, and
>> testing the work on Vista with Office 2007. I'm tired of having to
>> reboot back and forth, and so I thought I'd try Virtual PC 2007, and
>> put Vista on the VM.
>>
>> It is currently installing, but now I'm thinking ahead to activation
>> and I have a suspicion that it won't work because the key has been
>> used on the dual boot machine! I don't particularly want to buy
>> another license key - it won't ever have both machines booted at the
>> same time...
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>> Is there a way to "deactivate" the key on the dual boot machine and
>> then activate the VM?
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