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Vista EULA forbids running Home versions in a virtual machine.
Sat, 2006-11-25 13:33 — PMunn
ArsTechnica has noticed that Microsoft's EULA on Vista's Home and Home Premium flavors forbid running it in a virtual machine. Why is that?
Technically there's no reason for it. It simply appears to be another marketing push to force virtualization users to buy the more expensive versions of Vista. Just as XP Home can't support multiple processors or connect to a Windows Domain the way XP Professional edition can, this seems to just be another artificial constraint, albeit apparently so far only a legal one, on the software.
VMware rips into Microsoft.
VMware has taken notice of the new licensing restrictions filtering into the EULAs for Microsoft's new operating systems and fired back with a very strongly-worded letter and challenge to Microsoft.
Ars has the rundown of their complaints, and if you listen closely enough you can hear VMware being extremely frightened for its business life. Microsoft is set to eradicate them indirectly, using licensing terms to force VMware's customers to abandon VMware's software and use Microsoft's own fully-authorized virtualization technology.
It's only a matter of time.
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