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Can you help me with my software licensing issue?

It is said here that Windows Server 2012 Standard allows you to install it on one 2-processor machine and run up to two VMs of itself.

But what's about other guest OSes? Can't find anything about that.

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  • What did Microsoft say when you asked them? – John Gardeniers Sep 08 '12 at 23:09
  • Short answer is yes. There were a few articles about the fact that if you're not virtualising Windows Servers, the new 2012 standard license can be very cost effective, e.g. http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/gabeknuth/archive/2012/07/19/Microsoft_2700_s-mixed-message-on-Windows-Server-2012-licensing_3A00_-What_2700_s-the-real-story_3F00_.aspx – M Afifi Sep 09 '12 at 23:20

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Since this is a MS-licensing policy about w2k12 I would say this is not about anything else but the needed number of licences for it. So for other OSes you need a licence for that OS to run it as VM.

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