VMWare/Parallels users-question about Windows Activation issues

[Wolfpup]

Both VMWare and Parallels are supposed to support booting from a Boot Camp partition-obviously a great idea, since then you can use the same Windows install both in Boot Camp and from within OS X.

My concern is-do either of these programs deal with activation issues that that would cause? The system would appear different under Boot Camp than under VMWare/Parallels, and I'd assume that would trigger Window's charming activation.

Do either of those programs somehow get around that issue?

 

[andrewt1187]

I had to activate again. Others didn't have to. I called the toll free number in the activation prompt and talked to a recording. I told them I had a motherboard change and they let me use the key again.

A friend called MS directly and told them he was having trouble with Boot Camp and they gave him a new key.

 

[bigandy]

I regularly use VMWare with my BC partition, after moving from Parallels 3.

There are no activation issues with either that I've experienced...

 

[Wolfpup]

I had to activate again. Others didn't have to. I called the toll free number in the activation prompt and talked to a recording. I told them I had a motherboard change and they let me use the key again.

Wouldn't you have to then activate AGAIN when you boot to Windows directly?

I regularly use VMWare with my BC partition, after moving from Parallels 3.

There are no activation issues with either that I've experienced...

Are you using a version of Windows that requires activation? Like you did have to activate it once through Boot Camp, and then can switch back and forth without it prompting you to reactivate?