I apologize in advance if this topic has been covered/answered. I spent a few hours searching the forums and reading the FAQs and didn't find an answer.

My situation.

I have two WoW accounts. They were setup on two different machines awhile ago (for me and the wife). Well my wife has pretty much stopped playing and I suspended her account. On top of that, I had to reinstall windows on her machine and never got around to reinstalling WoW on it.

What I was wanting to do was run 2 instances of WoW on my laptop. Since it's running out of the same folder, the installation will be the same cdkey. I (of course) would log in to both accounts.

So to sum it up, it'd be the same installation of WoW but it'd be connected to the server with two different accounts. Is this allowed? The other option I was thinking of trying (which I'd rather not because of the pain of setting it up) was to setup a virtual machine on my laptop and install winxp/WoW on it.

My ultimate goal was to help level one of my toons using another one.

Again sorry if this was covered already. I'll continue reading through the forums (lotsa good information! )

TIA!

EDIT: Forgot to mention this. Both accounts were created by me and both accounts are in my name. Also, I forgot that I could do this but I'll probably make a copy of my WoW folder and run the 2nd instance from the copy.