I have a old net-book that is failing. Boot up takes longer than 5mins and just browsing the internet is too much for the little guy. I have a mac with VWware fusion 4 which I’ve been using to run ubuntu. Is their a way to obtain the windows 7 product or activation key from my net-book so that I can useit for virtualization on my mac. I plan to do a clean install of either ubuntu net-book edition or windows xp ( I have a licensed copy with a product key) on the net-book. Or should I just use xp for virtualization?
Thanks

Here are specs:
•VISION Premium Technology by AMD
For every detail to jump right off the screen when you’re viewing high-definition movies and videos, playing games, converting MP3 tracks or video chatting online.
•AMD Phenom™ II Processor with ATI Radeon graphics
True multicore processing for extreme multitasking performance. Cool’n'Quiet™ 3.0 and CoolCore™ technologies and Dual Dynamic Power Management™ for efficient energy usage.
•Direct Connect Architecture
Delivers overall system performance. HyperTransport™ technology, AMD Balanced Smart Cache and AMD Wide Floating Point Accelerator for quick access times and improved performance.
•AMD Memory Optimizer Technology
For multithreaded software performance, and AMD Virtualization with Rapid Virtualization Indexing to help virtualization software run securely and efficiently.
•6GB DDR3 SDRAM memory
For multitasking power, expandable to 16GB.
•Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support
Records up to 8.5GB of data or 4 hours of video using compatible media. Also supports DVD-RAM and LightScribe direct-disc labels using compatible LightScribe media.
•2MB L2 + 6MB shared cache
For efficient system processing.
•1TB Serial ATA hard drive (7200 rpm)
Offers spacious storage and fast read/write times.
•ATI Radeon HD 4200 graphics
Feature up to 2943MB total available video memory as allocated by Windows 7 for lush images.
Ok how do i check if i have an intergratd graphics card?

i plan on using only 2 videocards, so i guess will the quad memory controller and whatever else it may have be a noticeable benefit.

I do play games, but i also do some virtualization, encoding, stuff like that as well
i still have a core 2 duo

I have music and photos on both Amazon Cloud and Mozy. I did this to allow more room on my laptop. Now that I have what I want stored, do I just delete these items off my laptop/Itunes? What happens when I plug my iphone in the next time for an update and there are photos on it, not in Itunes Library?
The first response DOES NOT answer my questions. First, I do have my data in mutiple places, as indicated in the original question: Mozy and Amazon Cloud. Second, I didn’t ask what happens to photos in itunes. I asked what happens if I have new photos on my phone that are not in itunes? Meaning, if I am trying to save space, do I just upload them and then move to Mozy or Amazon Cloud?

And how do I free up space on my laptop, now that I have the items in online storage? Just delete them?

Okay, The main purpose is to LEARN about virtualization and play around with it. However,I have a problem of determining which is best for a HEADLESS server. I want to run several Linux distributions as guests and of cause Windows guests as well.

On a Side Note: This is not the first time I am going use virtualization. For more than 3 years I have been using VMWare Workstation and VirtualBox to run guest VMs

However, now I want to run VMs/VEs in a headless server as they do in industry. I know, in industry there are lot of advanced technologies are being used but, still I want to try them in SMALL-SCALE. As I mentioned before, this is purely for educational purposes.

If you’re wondering what kind of system that I am going to use as my host, here are some details:

Intel processor that supports hardware virtualization (Intel-VT)
8GB RAM
More than enough Hard disk space (~1TB)

THEREFORE, CAN YOU GUYS GIVE SOME SUGGESTIONS / LINKS TO TUTORIALS etc. Your ideas/help is very much appreciated.

Thank you in advanced.

P.S. I installed VMWare vSphere Hypervisor on my "host" and later noticed that it uses just over 1GB of my RAM just to run hypervisor. It is not an efficient solution for me because I have only 8GB RAM in my machine. Typical Linux Headless server only uses ~300MB RAM just to run. So, I prefer Linux Server. In fact I love FOSS