| ??? 10/24/11 13:53 Read: times |
#184338 - Virtualization Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Oliver Sedlacek said:
The virtual XP machine on Windows 7 Professional seems pretty good, but the VM is often recognised as a new machine which means you may need another license for any software you install on it. This certainly applies to MS Office!!
You may wonder why anyone would install software on Win7 and on the XP virtual machine, but the XP file system is also virtualised, so it can be tedious to operate on data files in XP and in Win7. MS-Office Licence can be used to the virtual-XP machine if it is needed, because of MS-Office licencing. Also the MS-Office might not be needed at the virtual-XP and only an Office Viewer from M$ is enough. Another case is to install previous versions of Office and the FileFormatConverters to be able to use .xlsx, .docx, ... The virtual-XP machine can have full or retstricted access to files and folder of the host machine and to other resources as LAN, Printers, Scanner, Internet, ... and vice versa, the host can have full or retstricted access to virtual-XP machine files and folders. With VMware Converter a running physical machine (Win9x/Win2K/XP ...) can be virtualized and then run hosted under win7_x64. In this case all software is already installed since the whole machine is ported to the virtualized system. These options can keep old-fashioned but well written applications to be usefull, up and running for the next decade. |
