Need to uninstall Boot Camp to get Win7 licence to work with VirtualBox?

I installed Win7 using Boot Camp a few days ago.
I find it a hassle rebooting each time I want to switch systems, and now wish to try VirtualBox.
Do i need to uninstall Win7 on Boot Camp (or delete the whole chunk) before Win7 will work on VirtualBox?
I don't want to touch the Terminal at all.

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
when you install Windows 7 in VirtUalBox you have to reactivate it with Microsoft, which deauthorizes your BootCamp Windows 7 license.
So while it is not really needed to uninstall, or better said remove your BootCamp Windows partition prior to installing it with VirtualBox, you should do it nonetheless to regain the harddisk space currently used by the Windows partition.
Use the BootCamp Assistant in OSX to repartition your harddisk back to one single OSX volume and so remove Windows.
Regards
Stefan

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