"Julian" <msforums@tiger2.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Can one legitimately (i.e within the terms of the EULA) clone the Vista
> installation into Virtual PC (on the same PC as the licensed OS), if so
> how? I have some applications I want to trial and I know (cos I tried it
> before) that they don't sit well alongside the currently installed
> applications... and I would rather like to minimise the uninstall -
> install - uninstall - reinstall aggravation if at all possible.


Oh, and as for licensing - I believe the Vista Ultimate license allows you
to install it as a virtual machine up to nine times, or something like that.
I am not sure how many times you can do it with Business, but as far as I
know, you are not supposed to use Home versions with it at all.

ss.