ruadath Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 The last time I tried setting one of these up was in high school, so I can probably do a much better job now that I actually know stuff, but I thought I'd put the question to the forum since I figured you guys might have some advice for me. Anyway, the reason I did this the last time was to be able to "save state" on some really old PC games. It was a lot of fun, but after several months of use (during which things were going very well), the VM complained that the version of Windows was pirated or something like that and refused to start any more :( I lost all those save files... Just wondering if anyone here knows what might have caused this, and how to do things better in the future to avoid this kind of problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naughx Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 (edited) You can mount Virtual Disk Images, you don't have to boot into the system to get your files. (VHD, VDI, VMDK...) But how did you activate Windows XP? Was it a retail key? (Since most virtualization softwares will use a different (generic) machine identity and not your computer's actual indentity there will issues at validating it) Since your retail key is supposed to be bound to only one machine it won't work with Microsoft's validation servers. Edited February 1, 2016 by Naughx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruadath Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 I don't really remember too well... in fact, I don't remember activating something like that at all. My assumption is that the thing must have had some sort of trial period on it? I'm honestly not too sure. Does that mean that the only way to get it up and running would be to get a keygen or something like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naughx Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 (edited) But maybe it could work if you changed the VM's DMI values to match your machine's values. VirtualBox does support it, I don't know for the other virtualization softwares. http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#changedmi DMI = Desktop Management Interface - Edit: Also VMWare Workstation Player (The free version) has a setting called: SMBIOS.reflectHost = TRUE That you can add to the *.vmx configuration file. (I've never tried it) Edited February 1, 2016 by Naughx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruadath Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 Hm, VirtualBox actually might be exactly what I used. I'll take a look into it if/when I get around to setting it up again, and might ask you a few more questions ;) Thanks for all the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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