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Virtual Vista Q and A
Friday, October 20th, 2006
I’m still trying to understand the confusing new licensing terms that affect how and when you can 
run Windows Vista within a virtual machine. In the interests of clarity, I sent a list of questions to Microsoft and received answers from Microsoft Director Scott Woodgate. I have corrected a few minor typos in both the questions and answers.
These answers contain two surprising pieces of information. One is that Microsoft fully intends that a virtual machine is locked to the hardware on which you first run it. This strikes me as a bizarre restriction on virtual machines, which are encapsulated in files that can be easily moved from one physical machine to another. Indeed, portability is one of the key advantages of VMs. Locking a virtual machine to a single physical device (with the right to move it once and only once) is somewhat like saying that you are not allowed to move your physical PC from the room in which you first installed it. » Virtual Vista Q and A | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com
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