Windows 7 licensing and virtual machines clarified

re: Windows 7 licensing and virtual machines clarified

Kasey — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:22:08 GMT

Do those VMs have to be Win7? Can I use Vista as one of the 4 guest VMs?

re: Windows 7 licensing and virtual machines clarified

Rich — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:58:02 GMT

Hi Luka,

If you want to run Windows client in a virtual machine and are not using the virtualization rights afforded by Windows 7 Pro w/SA (Enterprise), you will need to purcahse an FPP (boxed) copy of the OS you wish to install in the VM.

A Volume License upgrade requires a qualifying, underlying OS to be in place already..and that will not be the case in a virtual machine.

OEM cannot be used as there is no hardware for it to be tied to.

Hope that helps?

Cheers

Rich

re: Windows 7 licensing and virtual machines clarified

Luka — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:21:31 GMT

Hello Simon,

What if I have non-MS server with 3th party virtualization software and I want to emulate one virtual machine with Windows 7 Professional on it. Can I only buy one license for Windows Professional Upgrade trough Volume licensing agreemets?

Thank you in advance.

Kind Regards,

Luka

re: Windows 7 licensing and virtual machines clarified

Si May — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:11:53 GMT

Hi Kieran,

So the issue is that the OEM licenses don't allow for virutualisation to the same extent as Enterprise with SA. You only get to run 1 XP Mode on an OEM copy of Windows 7, not the 4 guests as in this post.

re: Windows 7 licensing and virtual machines clarified

F8 IT Solutions Limited — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:30:46 GMT

Useful post, however no mention of OEM licenses.

I deal with companies between 1-50 users, and even closer to 50, volume licensing is still not always preferred by the client.

Some feedback on what a typical high end OEM 7 Pro system could handle, as some of my clients require virtualisation for sandboxes.

Kind regards

Kieran Donnelly

MD of F8 IT Solutions Limited

http://www.f8-it.com