How does Windows 7 licensing work for running the OS as Virtual Machines?

Posted by Justin Dearing on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Justin Dearing
Published on 2009-08-19T14:17:19Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 12:23 UTC
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I plan on buying Windows 7 Ultimate Edition to run on an old Pentium 4. I also want to run Win7 virtual machines inside Win7. My question is two fold:

  • Do I need a license for each Virtual Machine
  • Does the answer change if I use a third party virtualization platform (e.g. VirtualBox, VMWare, QEMU, etc) as opposed to VirtualPC

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