Installing Linux, but keeping windows for VM boot?

Hello,
I'm thinking about buying a new thinkpad. I'd like to install linux and wide the recovery partition, but I'd also like to be able to make a Virtual Box vm from the licence of windows 7 that comes with purchase.
Does anybody know if that will be possible from the recovery cds?
Thanks

jdonato wrote:
Hello,
I'm thinking about buying a new thinkpad. I'd like to install linux and wide the recovery partition, but I'd also like to be able to make a Virtual Box vm from the licence of windows 7 that comes with purchase.
Does anybody know if that will be possible from the recovery cds?
If you mean using recovery cd's in a virtual machine? It wont work that way since the they check for a BIOS identifier during the first boot.
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