[mdlug] Virtualization in WinVista

[Jeff Hanson]

On 6/25/07, Michael Rudas <audiotech50 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure that there are some of us who would like to legally host
> WinVista under Linux.  It almost happened for Home users, but...
>
> There's a good reason why Microsoft flip-flopped on virtualization in
> WinVista Home: It turns out that the DRM features in WinVista are
> easily blown away like smoke on a summer breeze when WinVista is
> virtualized. See http://preview.tinyurl.com/yrjfvd (Computerworld
> article). I don't see how MS can fix this, nor why they didn't realize
> it BEFORE the egg blew up in their faces.

I suspected that the DRM would be ineffective when sharing VMs except
for Microsoft's VirtualPC which could enforce it on the guest OS.