On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > XP doesn't ever see your MacBook; all it sees is the VM you are > installing it in (and its virtual hardware). The XP activation tracks > the hardware XP sees -- which is not your MacBook, but the VM where > you're installing XP. > True, however, VmWare changes the emulated hardware in different versions, so the guest OS still could see some difficulties. BTW: Norton Ghost is capable of tweeking the activation key so that you can make a ghost image on your hardware and reghosting it on another without minding the activation process. Also pirates are using the enterprise version which doe snot have this activation game on it, so I really do not understand Microsoft why do they bother legitimate users with this... Tamas -- Rudonix DoubleSaver http://www.rudonix.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist