WTF help please

[IchBinMatt]

I installed windows xp home onto bootcamp. I then set up vmware fusion.

While in vmware fusion I activated my version of xp. Was that a bad move?

Now in boot camp it still asks to activate and vmware does not. WTF?

Please help me.

 

[webgoat]

you need to have vmware tools installed in fusion before you activate in the vm and the activation issues will be taken care of

 

[adrianblaine]

XP has to be re-activated when there is an extreme change in hardware setup. There is a big difference what Windows sees when it is either in Boot Camp mode or when it is running virtually. I would imagine that when you switch from one to the other, it will have to be re-activated each time.

 

[IchBinMatt]

How can I fix this since I already activated?

Plus, its boot camp that asks for the activation. VMware is fine.

 

[webgoat]

activate again in boot camp... go back to fusion and make sure vmware tools are installed and try to activate again in fusion... this should stop the activation requirements... if it says you've exceeded your limit of activations on that license you are going to have to activate by phone and tell them you upgraded your hard drive and its only been installed on one computer and they will give you a new key number

 

[IchBinMatt]

activate again in boot camp... go back to fusion and make sure vmware tools are installed and try to activate again in fusion... this should stop the activation requirements... if it says you've exceeded your limit of activations on that license you are going to have to activate by phone and tell them you upgraded your hard drive and its only been installed on one computer and they will give you a new key number

How do I choose to activate again in vmware if its already been activated?

 

[Guy Incognito]

How do I choose to activate again in vmware if its already been activated?

Don't worry about it unless Windows prompts you to activate again.