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Can you help me with my software licensing question?

I have a licensed instance of 2003 server standard edition on a physical server. can i also then run a third party virtual instance of the same server on the physical machine... i.e a vmware server with a cloned copy of the server for testing.

or do i need another license for the virtual copy as well?

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STANDARD LICENSING DISCLAIMER:

While SF can give you a decent idea, and more often than not a very good answer, the best place to ask these types of questions is to ask you licensing representative from Microsoft.

With server 2003 you could have the following virtual servers per license:

Standard: 1 VM OR 1 Physical
Enterprise: 4 VM OR 1 Physical
Datacenter: Unlimited VM OR 1 Physical

I'm pretty sure they changed this for 08, but i can't find the 2003 page anymore it all redirects to 2008 R2 so this is purely from memory.

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