Vista/Fusion/BootCamp/Activation - VENT

[Neil321]

I'm having a similar problem, activated while booted into Vista and all is good, however running in VMWare says activation failed, two days left!!!

Have you followed the validate windows & installing fusion process correctly?

 

[Mark Morb]

Have you followed the validate windows & installing fusion process correctly?

Yes, I only actually put Fusion on a few weeks back but have been using my fully activated version of Vista Ultimate using Boot Camp for about 3 or 4 months. I have only just noticed the VMFusion session asking for validation as I don't use it that often...

 

[MM07]

Yes, I only actually put Fusion on a few weeks back but have been using my fully activated version of Vista Ultimate using Boot Camp for about 3 or 4 months. I have only just noticed the VMFusion session asking for validation as I don't use it that often...

This happened to me too because I did not install the Fusion tools first.

Just do the phone activation and you'll be all set. You'll have to type in many, many numbers, but it will work.

 

[Mark Morb]

This happened to me too because I did not install the Fusion tools first.

Just do the phone activation and you'll be all set. You'll have to type in many, many numbers, but it will work.

I'll give it a try when I get home, thanks

 

[Neil321]

I'll give it a try when I get home, thanks

Yep just do as MM07,validation problems normally arise when people don't install the tools & then try to validate,as MM07 also stated
you can use there automated phone & customer rep thingy,its a long winded process that you have to tell it basically you upgraded your hardware
and its not letting you activate again

 

[VideoFreek]

Vista SP1 kills activation in Fusion/Bootcamp installs

In case you're unaware, apparently Vista SP1 has killed VMWare Tools's ability to manage activations, because SP1 introduces significant changes in Windows activation. I learned about this the hard way when I installed Vista Ultimate from my bootcamp partition--it seemed to activate just fine in Fusion, but then when I booted natively from the bootcamp partition, it was asking for activation. It (re-)activated there just fine, but then when I booted into Fusion, it's asking for activation again!

Over at the VMWare forums, a company rep (Jim Gill) acknowledges the issue and states they're working on it. In the meantime, the only workaround is to uninstall SP1. Here is one of the relevant threads:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/897252#897252

 

[danrad]

What kind of activation issues will I run into with a second install?

Fusion keeps hosing my video drivers in Boot Camp, so I set up a separate VM and did a fresh install of Vista 64 Home Premium.

What kind of trouble will I run into with activation? Anyone know?

Is Windows really worth it?