vista and upgraded windows 7

jimwoodward · 01 Dec 2009

I was runnung vista home 32 bit, and I upgraded to windows 7 professional.
I did a clean install of windows 7, 64 bit. May I run, legally, the vista home in a virtual window under the windows 7?
I ask because I have installed the vista home using vmware player with the windows 7 as host, but to continue, I must validate the vista home - the program I used for the upgrade.
Hope you can follow me!
Thanks
p.s. this is all on one computer

richc46 · 01 Dec 2009

jimwoodward said:

I was runnung vista home 32 bit, and I upgraded to windows 7 professional.
I did a clean install of windows 7, 64 bit. May I run, legally, the vista home in a virtual window under the windows 7?
I ask because I have installed the vista home using vmware player with the windows 7 as host, but to continue, I must validate the vista home - the program I used for the upgrade.
Hope you can follow me!
Thanks
p.s. this is all on one computer

If you used a full retail DVD, you can use it. If you have to validate again, but upgraded with an upgrade disc, it would not be permitted.

I know that you used the word upgrade, but some people use that term to indicate going from vista or xp to 7.

jimwoodward · 01 Dec 2009

I did get an upgrade to windows 7. What about running the windows 7 32bit version ( which came with the upgrade) in a virtual window with the 64 bit version as the host?
Thanks again!

Frostmourne · 01 Dec 2009

No - one key for one disk.

whs · 01 Dec 2009

The idea of the upgrade option was to replace your old system by Win7 which "aquired" the product key of your old system and thereby blocked it. I would anyhow try whether it works - what can you loose.