Originally posted by: Rilex
Let's read this very carefully...
4. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software installed on the licensed device (i.e. the HOST) within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system (i.e. the GUEST).
Yes that is your interpretation. You didn't actually reply to my questions though. What you think it says may not be what Microsoft intended.
First off 'Licensed Device' is not 'host'. That's just your incorrect assumption. Microsoft makes very clearly that a 'licensed device' is the HARDWARE the license is tied to. It does not include any software or anything else.
INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS. Before you use the software under a license, you must assign
that license to one device (physical hardware system). That device is the ?licensed device.? A
hardware partition or blade is considered to be a separate device.
a. Licensed Device. You may install one copy of the software on the licensed device. You may
use the software on up to two processors on that device at one time. Except as provided in the
Storage and Network Use (Ultimate edition) sections below, you may not use the software on any
other device.
What your saying is that your allowed to install home in a VM, right? So that virtual machine must become the 'licensed device', right? So then it is no longer tied to the actual hardware so then I can move that virtualized system from one machine to another and that is allowed?
Using hypervisors I can keep Home in a protected ring state, a VM, and transfer stuff willy-nilly from one machine to another. I don't even have to stop the thing from running or pause it or reboot it or anything. So your saying that I am allowed to do with home? (I don't think so)
The way I see it the EULA doesn't explicitely deny your ability to run it in a VM, but effectively removes any and all ability to gain any benifits from it or do it any meaningfull way.
If you have somewere were Microsoft clarifies then I would be happy to see this.