My last work laptop (3 months ago I retired it) was a Dell, running WinXP, 32-bit.
I replaced it with a Lenovo Thinkpad, running Win7 64-bit.
I have an app I support that I need to be able to compile/test 32 and 64 bit versions of it, so I did a Physical-to-virtual conversion of my old Dell laptop onto my Thinkpad using VMWare Vconverter, then running the VM on VirtualBox.
Worked pretty sweet.
Well, the Lenovo is a rancid POS and I shipped it off for warranty. I'm working off an ASUS I bought recently, running Win7 64-bit.
I copied my VM image to the new laptop. Start it up.
Windows XP wants to reactivate. But it can't, since I need to reinstall VM guest additions into the virtualized OS. But it won't let me get to a functional desktop and auto-logs off if I don't activate.
So I have to activate via telephone, listening to robo-gal tell me the strings of characters to verify activation. Yuck.