Running Windows 7 in virtual box with my own key

bennyineire

Hey peps, I have a machine running windows 7 its starting to run a bit slow.
I'm going to reinstall it some this week, I was also going to install a windows 7 on virtual box (for downloading torrents).
My lecturer said last year that you can run Win7 on 1 physical machine and 2 virtual machines concurrently and legally with the same key, can anyone confirm this for me.

bennyineire

can anyone help a brother out

PropJoe10

Just had a quick look there on the Microsoft forums, this answer is from 2010 so may have changed since, but this is from a Microsoft mod:

You would need a separate Windows 7 "full version" license in order to install and activate Windows 7 in a VM. As far as Virtual Machines go, it is regarded as a separate computer and you can only install and activate one (1) copy of Windows 7 and one (1) computer using one (1) Windows 7 license.

bennyineire

bennyineire wrote: »

Hey peps, I have a machine running windows 7 its starting to run a bit slow.
I'm going to reinstall it some this week, I was also going to install a windows 7 on virtual box (for downloading torrents).
My lecturer said last year that you can run Win7 on 1 physical machine and 2 virtual machines concurrently and legally with the same key, can anyone confirm this for me.

You can run Windows Server Standard on a physical machine and two VMs. Not client versions.

Capt'n Midnight

Karsini wrote: »

You can run Windows Server Standard on a physical machine and two VMs. Not client versions.

You can also run the trial version of windows server for up to 120 days if you rearm it.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/windows-server-2012-r2/