Several questions

[eben333]

Hi everyone. I have several questions and I hope I get an answers to them. I know some of these questions are pretty basic but I am not an active KJ and only do a few gigs per year so I don't always keep up to date. I did try to find some answers by searching on the forum but they tend to be outdated.

Currently, I have Hoster 3.317 working well on my rackmount computer running XP and a cheap XP laptop. I have been thinking about making some changes to this setup. I am thinking of using my MacBook Pro running Vista instead of the old laptop and keep the rackmount.

From reading several threads, it seems that 4.04 is having issues with Vista. I was thinking of going with Vista on my Macbook Pro to run Hoster.

1. If I upgrade from current version to 4.x, how does the license work to transfer to the machines I have? Currently I have one on my rackmount, which I would like to keep, but want to transfer the other from my old laptop to the MacBook Pro. How can this be done? Because when I tried to install 3.317 on another machine, it said that all my licenses have been used and can not be installed again. Old days I had a floppy disk to transfer license but none of my new machines have floppy drive anymore. Does having two different OS have any affect?

2. I can't seem to easily find XP in the market today, thus the decision to go Vista. If I do that, my rackmount will remain XP and the laptop Vista. Is it a good idea to consolidate both to a single OS? If I consolidate both, would it be better to go with XP on both or Vista on both?

3. I couldn't find after search but I would assume that MacBook Pro running XP/Vista via Bootcamp and/or VMWare Fusion would work with Hoster? I have verified that the second monitor works fine under MacOS X so I am pretty sure it will work under Windows.

4. Should I wait for 4.05 before making the change?

Thanks in advance for answers.

Ben