Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

neonkru

macrumors regular
Original poster
Nov 3, 2009
241
0
:mad::mad:


i installed my winxp license in bootcamp then i valited. but whenever i open it in vm ware then i have to validate again because it says hardware have been changed, then if i want to boot into bootcamp to play some game like burnout paradise it says i have to validate again, so here i am, installed a cracked windows xp so i doesn't have to valited. still not doing anything ilegal since i have a legal license. is there any solution for using the license key avoiding that little problem?
 
It's a known issue.

Windows' excessive licensing protection views Boot Camp and Fusion as two separate computers, I don't believe there's a workaround other than:
• choosing to use ONLY Fusion OR Boot Camp
• installing two separate copies of Windows, taking up extra HD space.
 
If this is such a known issues, then why have the last 3 versions of Parallels done it without problems in XP, Vista and Windows 7? And why would anyone buy VMWare?

There must be a configuration issue somewhere.
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.