Cloning windows 8

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Cloning windows 8

Alfredo De Luca

2013-12-11 06:37:52 UTC

Hi all.
I am about to get a new laptop and of course it comes with Windows 8. I
will install Ubuntu instead then Virtualbox and have windows 8 as guest.

What's the best practise/way to do so?
I wonder if Paragon Software will help me. Any suggestions?
Regards

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*Alfredo*

jdd

2013-12-11 08:41:10 UTC

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Post by Alfredo De Luca
Hi all.
I am about to get a new laptop and of course it comes with Windows 8.
I will install Ubuntu instead then Virtualbox and have windows 8 as guest.

as far as I know, there is no way to legally install Windows 8 on a
guest without buying a new one. Better keep a dualboot

jdd

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Alfredo De Luca

2013-12-12 01:57:47 UTC

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Shouldn't be a problem on the same laptop I think.

Alfredo

Post by Alfredo De Luca

Post by Alfredo De Luca
Hi all.
I am about to get a new laptop and of course it comes with Windows 8.
I will install Ubuntu instead then Virtualbox and have windows 8 as

guest.
as far as I know, there is no way to legally install Windows 8 on a
guest without buying a new one. Better keep a dualboot
jdd
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jdd

2013-12-12 07:53:07 UTC

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Post by Alfredo De Luca
Shouldn't be a problem on the same laptop I think.

do you have a windows dvd?

if not, and you have only a restore partition, I don't see how you can
manage this

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Leonardo Carneiro

2013-12-12 11:49:34 UTC

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Hi Alfredo.

There has already been a big discussion here on the list (i guess you can
find in the archives) about the possibility of installing a Windows OEM
license in VirtualBox. MS does not approve, you would not be legalized and
probably your installation will complain one time or another about his
license being invalid.

But hey, you are free to try!

Best regards.
Leo Carneiro

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Post by Alfredo De Luca
Shouldn't be a problem on the same laptop I think.

do you have a windows dvd?
if not, and you have only a restore partition, I don't see how you can
manage this
jdd
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Eric S. Johansson

2013-12-12 15:04:56 UTC

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Post by Leonardo Carneiro
Hi Alfredo.
There has already been a big discussion here on the list (i guess you
can find in the archives) about the possibility of installing a
Windows OEM license in VirtualBox. MS does not approve, you would not
be legalized and probably your installation will complain one time or
another about his license being invalid.

Leonardo Carneiro

2013-12-12 18:51:53 UTC

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LOL! Yeah, that's the kind of "lucky" i'm talking about. That would be the
road i'll would trail if i would try that.

Post by Eric S. Johansson

I've had good luck with calling the activation phone number when
activation doesn't work and saying that you've had to do major
motherboard replacement/upgrade and now reinstalling when the activation
failed. It's kind of true. Mostly. As far as I'm concerned, a VM is a
major motherboard replacement. :-)
I think the major difference over previous OS releases is that Microsoft
is now paying attention to the number of times a license key is used
both in parallel and serial. I've cloned activated VM's and after two or
three clonings, the VM stops working. Maybe I was just unlucky but it
took another call to get the VM's to work.
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Alfredo De Luca

2013-12-14 07:17:52 UTC

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Well. It's always sucks when you have a laptop with Win pre installed and
you don't want it but you wanna use it just because you paid for it.
I ll give it a try and let you guys know.

Alfredo

Post by Leonardo Carneiro
LOL! Yeah, that's the kind of "lucky" i'm talking about. That would be the
road i'll would trail if i would try that.

Post by Eric S. Johansson

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John A. Wallace

2013-12-18 17:32:17 UTC

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-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 12:38 AM
To: Community mailing list of VirtualBox users
Subject: [VBox-users] Cloning windows 8
Hi all.
I am about to get a new laptop and of course it comes with Windows 8. I
will install Ubuntu instead then Virtualbox and have windows 8 as guest.
What's the best practise/way to do so?

Have you not heard the good news(?): Windows has been deprecated.

Alfredo De Luca

2013-12-19 02:14:53 UTC

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What do you mean?

Alfredo

Post by John A. Wallace

Have you not heard the good news(?): Windows has been deprecated.
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Leonardo Carneiro

2013-12-19 08:34:58 UTC

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I think it was a joke...

Post by Alfredo De Luca
What do you mean?
Alfredo

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Alfredo De Luca

2013-12-19 22:54:33 UTC

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I see. :-)

Alfredo

Post by Leonardo Carneiro
I think it was a joke...

Post by Alfredo De Luca
What do you mean?
Alfredo

Post by John A. Wallace

Have you not heard the good news(?): Windows has been deprecated.
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