[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.

[Venky]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:47:57AM +0530, Ananth Shrinivas wrote:
> 
> >What kind payments to be made to Microsoft if Vista is to be run on 
> >VMware in a desktop?
> 
> You need a standard MS license for the OS you wish to run. If its a 
> school, you need to buy one license for every single computer you wish 
> to run the OS on. I believe there is a 'bulk discount' or some such thing.

Might be a little more complex than that.  It is not legal to run
all versions of Vista inside VMWare.  You might need to go for
the business editions of Vista which are significantly more
expensive.

http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,61969665,00.htm
http://www.vmware.com/solutions/whitepapers/msoft_licensing_wp.html

There are some new licenses available which would allow Vista
Enterprise Edition to be run on a virtualized server-based setup,
but this would probably still turn out to be expensive.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/03/windows_vista_virtualization/

Any reason why it has to Vista and not XP?  As Ananth mentioned,
this would make your hardware less expensive.

Venky.