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Slacker007 wrote: Good times.
I look forward to your report in...April? May?
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Yeah, good times for the kids. However, I like to look at snow, not drive in it or shovel it. So, I am looking forward to April/May...most definitely. 
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No sign of snow here in Phoenix. We had a little rain a few days ago; that was a nice change.
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Do you get snow in your part of Phoenix?
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I don't, but I'm sure snow is available to they who want it. 
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The last time snow fell where I live was in the 1950s. 
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It started snowing one hour ago, here, in south Switzerland (center Europe).
In the city I can see whitened roofs and gardens, but in the nearby valleys everything has been already covered by a thick white mantle (even roads...).
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Yup, ended up driving around all afternoon in it around Hudson / Ghent. Lovely morning, blue skies, white fluffy stuff on the ground and on the tree branches.
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Hmm .. by coincidence, Ghent (Belgium, Flanders) is my location. Is there something special about Hudson/Ghent ? And, BTW we have a lot of snow now ... and it keeps coming ...
BR
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Roma is rarely blessed by the snow. 
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Black Forest - Germany
finally we sunk in snow! (Only ~20cm but it's good for the start)
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None here - even though the rest of the country has it. Pompey is surrounded on three sides by the sea, and a hill on the other. People tell me this makes it very difficult to snow here - it has to come in from a certain direction, I forget which. Haven't seen snow for 7 years now.
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Slacker007 wrote: approx. 2 inches.
Wimps! Just outside of Atlanta we got 12 inches of snow. Most ever recorded for this area by far and it isn't even winter. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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HappyFestivus wrote: Just outside of Atlanta we got 12 inches of snow.
I saw that. The Carolinas got a lot of snow too.
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Raleigh saw snow on Saturday, nothing stuck.
Days like this make me happy to no longer be in upstate NY. 2 inches of snow sounds tedious
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Snowed from Wednesday on in Zürich until Sunday afternoon when it turned to freezing rain-ugh.
Place was nicely covered in snow by the weekend though! Went skiing yesterday, nearly froze my unmentionables off. -20 Celsius in places, at around 3000-3500 Metres. Good job I was going fast... 
I love this time of year. Feel very lucky to live here around now. Pity about pesky Christmas ruining all the fun...
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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SO after running in my xth problem with my computer, I have decided to install a VmWare engine. One silly question : how do you install windows on these ? My computer came with windows preinstalled, so I do not have any media that I could reuse. I know that you guys are quite virtualized, so how did you do this ? Do I have to buy an extra windows ?
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You need license for installing Windows on VM (and when you buy a license you will get the media too)...
If you want to move your installation (the physical machine) to be a VM - it is possible too, but the legal part can be fishy as the OEM license you probably have, not really allows that as much as I know...
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Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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before you trash the old setup be sure to get the licence keys for your and paid installed software
- there's freeware out there that'll find them for you if you don't have the stickers any more.
Sometimes a new install won't accept the old keys, but with those old keys/info you can contact microsoft (etc) and get new keys - just tell them your hdd died so you had to reinstall from scratch.
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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Careful. I've tried this and failed. Windows 7 and earlier would allow you to look up the key, Windows 10 has a fake key, and it won't work. The oem key you need should be on a label on the machine somewhere.
As for the fishy Microsoft licensing stuff - you're "safe" if you pay full retail license for everything  but no one ever does that. I'm sure if you poked around certain auction sites, you could come up with numerous ideas for obtaining a legitimate key.
I challenge anyone to make sense of Microsoft's licensing agreement.
To the original poster - I use VMWare extensively. For Windows 10, all you need is either the DVD or an ISO file. See: Download Windows 10[^]
Once you have installation media, creating it is trivial - I'll leave it to you. VMware also has a tool that will allow you to absorb an existing physical installation into a VM. I'll be doing this with my previous laptop installation.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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OK, didn't know the key lookup wouldn't work on w10. (begs the question why am I not allowed to see my own key but...) and as you say newer pre-installed machines should have the sticker (caveat: In Asia - depending on where you bought it from.)
Have you tried the VMware physical installation before? I've been meaning to help a client absorb an XP machine into a VM on w7 but been taking it slow to avoid the egg-on-face.
(Actually more got the feeling it'll take hours during which I'd have to sit there and talk to the user... yaaay! not!)
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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I've not tried to absorb an existing machine yet. That's on my Christmas to-do list. The good news is that you can't hurt anything. If the VM isn't any good you just delete a few files and poof.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Thanks for your hints.
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So...are you installing a full virtualization OS from VMware, like ESX, or just using one of their virtualization solutions that run on top of Windows, like VMware Workstation?
If the former--then you're probably just introducing an additional software layer that can have its own set of failures. And I don't know about you, but I'm much more familiar with getting a FUBARed version of Windows going again than a FUBARed instance of VMware OSes.
If the latter--then what sort of problem are you seeing now, that you're not expecting to see if you continue to use Windows as the host OS?
That said, I'm not disagreeing with your thought process at all. The key, IMO, is that I keep a minimal set of software installed on my VM host--just basic motherboard drivers--and everything else runs in a bunch of separate VMs (the whole separation of concern principle)--for example, I have a small VM dedicated for a single task, being a domain controller. Then another VM for my dev tools. Another still for testing random software I may install and remove all the time (including my own). That way, if something goes wrong, the problem is generally confined within a single VM and I don't have much to rebuild if worse comes to worse.
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As for licenses...as a software developer, I have an MSDN subscription, every instance of every Windows OS I use in a VM is for testing purposes--including the domain controller, SQL, etc.
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