October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
64h 7m
English
If you used Windows XP Mode under Windows 7, you have a fully bootable VHD file containing Windows XP that has your old Windows applications and data already set up, and you might want to continue to use it under Windows 8. This copy of Windows XP is not licensed to be used on Windows 8, and if you try to do so, Windows product activation enforces the license restriction. You technically can move a Windows XP Mode virtual machine to Hyper-V, but once you start it up, Windows XP detects the new environment and initiates a product activation cycle that you can’t complete.
You can, however, keep the XP Mode virtual hard disk and the files it contains. Use the DISK2VHD application described in the previous section ...
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