Go Canes writes:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 6:52 PM Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> Windows did boot, but came up in 640x480 mode with basic drivers, > unactivated, and refused to activate, wanting me to pay for a license.> The explanation it gave me: new hardware. This was a retail license, though,> which should be transferable. When I upgraded some VMs running Windows 7 on VirtualBox to Windows 10 on KVM I had to re-enter the license key for some of them. When you say it "refused to activate" did you mean that you re-entered the key and it rejected it? Or that it just didn't automatically accept the pre-existing key?
The license key is used only when upgrading to Win10. From that point, Win 10 uses some kind of a digital entitlement license. All Win 7 seats that get a free upgade to Win 10 show the same license key, post upgrade.
Windows 10 only offered to sell a license, in order to activate itself, before I reverted the snapshot.
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