Vista Basic and Premium are no-no’s on Parallels for Mac
[from IP - Interesting People, not Intellectual Property]
From: Steve Goldstein steve.goldstein@cox.net
Date: February 3, 2007 12:19:08 AM EST
To: “David Farber [IP]” dave@farber.net, dewayne@warpspeed.com
(Dewayne Hendricks)
Subject: Vista Basic and Premium are no-no’s on Parallels for Mac
Running Vista in Parallels - The Big Gotcha
by John Martellaro, 12:55 PM EST, January 31st, 2007
Parallels is alerting its customers that, with the introduction of
Vista, Microsoft has complicated things substantially in the Vista
End User License Agreement (EULA) regarding the virtualization
environment. In a communication with TMO on Wednesday, Ben Rudolph,
the Parallels Marketing Manager pointed out that Microsoft has set
some “very specific, and restrictive, guidelines on when and how
Vista can be run in a virtual machine.”
Parallels Desktop is the #2 selling software for Macs (behind
Microsoft Office). It allows Macintosh users to run Mac OS X and
Windows side-by-side using virtualization technology.
The crux of the matter is that the least expensive versions of Vista,
the Home Basic and Home Premium are not licensed for use in a
virtualization environment. This will force customers who want to run
Vista within Parallels into, at least, the Business version of Vista
which retails for $299.
It gets worse. The Vista EULA goes on to say:
“USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may use the software
installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise
emulated) hardware system on the licensed device. If you do so, you
may not play or access content or use applications protected by any
Microsoft digital, information or enterprise rights management
technology or other Microsoft rights management services or use
BitLocker. We advise against playing or accessing content or using
applications protected by other digital, information or enterprise
rights management technology or other rights management services or
using full volume disk drive encryption.”
This would appear to preclude the use of Vista for things like
watching DRM’d video content including the new Netflix service. But
the dust has not settled and the complete EULA interpretation will
become clearer in time.
http://parallelsvirtualization.blogspot.com/2007/01/vista-is-here-so- what-does-it-mean-for.html
Microsoft has released a new EULA (End User License Agreement) that
states that only certain versions of Vista - Business and Ultimate
(and Enterprise for corporate customers) are eligible to be run in a
virtual machine. The EULA says that Home Basic and Home Premium
CANNOT be run in a virtual machine.
Here’s the tecnical legalese from the EULAs:
For Vista Home Basic and Home Premium Editions:
“USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software
installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise
emulated) hardware system.”
For Vista Enterprise and Ultimate Editions:
“USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may use the software
installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise
emulated) hardware system on the licensed device. If you do so, you
may not play or access content or use applications protected by any
Microsoft digital, information or enterprise rights management
technology or other Microsoft rights management services or use
BitLocker. We advise against playing or accessing content or using
applications protected by other digital, information or enterprise
rights management technology or other rights management services or
using full volume disk drive encryption.”
In short, this means that if you’re a user and you want to run Vista
virtually, you MUST buy the highest end versions of Vista, or you’ll
be in violation of the Microsoft EULA.
Here are the price points for each version: * Home Basic $199 * Home Premium $239 * Business $299 * Ultimate $399
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