I'm thinking about setting up some virtual machines on my laptop. The idea is to have a VM for Siemens software, a VM for Rockwell software etc. I've seen this done at other jobs but never set up a VM from scratch myself.
I will be using VMWare. It sounds like creating a VM should be straightforward as long as you have your Operating System install CD's/license available. I want to create Windows 7 VM's but I don't have any spare Win 7 CD's/licenses.
I was thinking about making an image of my laptop and loading that onto a VM. Is this possible? This link from Microsoft says that if I do this, I can not run the VM on my original laptop, but I could run it on a different laptop/PC:
"Do not attach to VHDs on the same system on which you created them if you plan on booting from them. If you do so, Windows will assign the VHD a new disk signature to avoid a collision with the signature of the VHD’s source disk. Windows references disks in the boot configuration database (BCD) by disk signature, so when that happens Windows booted in a VM will fail to locate the boot disk."
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sy...d=_nv3rcnlcn9kfrjgukk0sohzn0n2xjdsqwevegts900
Anyone have any experience with this?
Is there any other way to create some VM's without buying more Win 7 licenses/install CD's?
Thanks in advance for any help.
I will be using VMWare. It sounds like creating a VM should be straightforward as long as you have your Operating System install CD's/license available. I want to create Windows 7 VM's but I don't have any spare Win 7 CD's/licenses.
I was thinking about making an image of my laptop and loading that onto a VM. Is this possible? This link from Microsoft says that if I do this, I can not run the VM on my original laptop, but I could run it on a different laptop/PC:
"Do not attach to VHDs on the same system on which you created them if you plan on booting from them. If you do so, Windows will assign the VHD a new disk signature to avoid a collision with the signature of the VHD’s source disk. Windows references disks in the boot configuration database (BCD) by disk signature, so when that happens Windows booted in a VM will fail to locate the boot disk."
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sy...d=_nv3rcnlcn9kfrjgukk0sohzn0n2xjdsqwevegts900
Anyone have any experience with this?
Is there any other way to create some VM's without buying more Win 7 licenses/install CD's?
Thanks in advance for any help.