Certain features of vmware virtualization such as non-persistent storage and independent guest date make it possible to run windows 7 forever, using the trial period before activation.
It seems possible to do even better than that, and allow dates to go beyond the one month trial. By convincing windows it has just been installed. Has anyone got this to work?
What happens with windows updates, is there anyway to make them think they are always in the trial period?
Is there some other way to make windows 7 ultimate run forever in a VM? Haven't tried activating windows in the VM because the license by Dell here is for the host only. What happens if I activate windows in the VM? Does the host lose its activation and fail to reboot?
