Do IT Virtually Anywhere

re: Do IT Virtually Anywhere

Nathan Novak — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:19:25 GMT

Do the OS VM's have timeouts for them? These sound like great tools, especially for developers. But if the OS is only good for 60 days that's no good on a 6 month dev project.

re: Do IT Virtually Anywhere

Keith Combs — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:46:43 GMT

According to the FAQ at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/try/vhd/faq.mspx, it's 30 days. I seriously doubt that. Can you imagine re-creating the VHD's every 30 days or resetting the time bombs?

I'll find out for sure later this week.

re: Do IT Virtually Anywhere

rob — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:47:01 GMT

Ben Armstrong over at Virtual PC Guy has been getting quite a roasting over this. Seems that even with your Technet activation code you still are limited to 30 days. Kinda a bummer. Makes it tough to get excited about when you can swing over to VMWare's site and pull down several hundred VM images that are fully configured and ready to run (most are Linux, of course) with no expiration dates.

re: Do IT Virtually Anywhere

Keith Combs — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:06:19 GMT

FYI, I have confirmed that you are indeed expected to use your MSDN or TechNet keys to activate the image if you want to go beyond 30 days. The downside to that approach is that you don't learn the installation and configuration from scratch (my preferred learning method). But hey, you save time, right?