Hi guys
When doing an UPGRADE from VISTA X-64 to W7 X-64 the 2007 Office activation doesn't request re-activation (currently) so the OFFICE part of activation still thinks (presumably) that the hardware hasn't changed significantly.
This might not mean much to most users but if you want to create a number of Virtual Machines then you would normally run out of activations quite quickly.
I created my Base VM by booting Acronis Universal Restore from the Virtual machine I was creating (from a "Physical Image" and told the Acronis Universal Restore program to sort the changed hardware out (essentially doing a P2V - Physical to Virtual ) conversion.
Worked a treat -- The initial boot gives zillions of "New hardware found" messages but eventuallty it boots fine..
In the Unlikely event it BSOD's then just boot again (the Virtual machine) using the W7 install disk (not the image backup) and select repair system.
Now you can "clone" this VM as many times as you like without having to re-activate Office 2007.
Strangely enough Photoshop CS4 also didn't require re-activation either -- but I wasn't so interested in running Photoshop on a VM -- Office however is another matter.
Cheers
jimbo
When doing an UPGRADE from VISTA X-64 to W7 X-64 the 2007 Office activation doesn't request re-activation (currently) so the OFFICE part of activation still thinks (presumably) that the hardware hasn't changed significantly.
This might not mean much to most users but if you want to create a number of Virtual Machines then you would normally run out of activations quite quickly.
I created my Base VM by booting Acronis Universal Restore from the Virtual machine I was creating (from a "Physical Image" and told the Acronis Universal Restore program to sort the changed hardware out (essentially doing a P2V - Physical to Virtual ) conversion.
Worked a treat -- The initial boot gives zillions of "New hardware found" messages but eventuallty it boots fine..
In the Unlikely event it BSOD's then just boot again (the Virtual machine) using the W7 install disk (not the image backup) and select repair system.
Now you can "clone" this VM as many times as you like without having to re-activate Office 2007.
Strangely enough Photoshop CS4 also didn't require re-activation either -- but I wasn't so interested in running Photoshop on a VM -- Office however is another matter.
Cheers
jimbo