Hardware changes to require XP Activation ? (for a Virtual Machine)
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I have WXP-64 running on a VM and, for testing and performance reasons, I would like to occasionally change the allocations for it. Changes might include:
Number of CPU cores,
Amount of RAM
Add/remove network adapters.
But I'm concerned that XP will demand re-activation and that I might eventually have licensing issues if I do this.
So, can anyone tell me:
What kind of changes trigger re-activation in XP?
Is there limits or caveat with regard to re-activation?
I've perused this question and the article it references, but wanted more recent and verified info.
(FWIW, I'm not trying to cheat: the OS copy was purchased explicitly for the VM.)