attention you need a secund Win7 licence!
With my previous Santa Rosa MacBookPro I used either Bootcamp or //desktop6 with my Bootcamp XP_SP3 single one licence!
But this is no more blessed on Windows 7:
If you try to use your Bootcamp Win7 virtualized thru //desktop6, you'll be prompted to purchase another Win7 licence...
Arghh! a lot of bucks to throw thru the window...
;-(
If you ignore this gentle warning, after the next attempt to boot, you'll be punished with a "black screen" just few secunds after finishing the boot process.
Thanx a lot Microsoft: this is reallay bad since you only have a single hardware, but certainly not 2 computers!
Worse, when you boot from //desktop you cannot use in the same time your genuine Bootcamp Win7, so why 2 licences needed?...
I was told that VMWare Fusion 3 doesn't need two licences of Win7...
If it's true, this will kill //desktop6, because having to purchase a secund Win7 licence for the same hardware is obviously a big issue.
I could resurrect from the black screen after booting in safemode and doing a restore from a previous version just cooked before trying this silly boot with //desktop6 attempting to use my Bootcamp partition virtualized. It probably was the installation of the Parallel tools that corrupted my Win7 letting Microsoft to consider it was a cracked win7 licence instead of a rosebud one...
Holy sh...
Be aware that in Win7 you may automatically activate the licence without paying attention; this was my case.
Hope this helps! I would gladly hear if someone else using VMWare Fusion 3 with Win7 only need just a single Win7 Pro license?
regards
Bernard (Paris,Fr)
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