On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 10:09 PM Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 sam Yes, that is how it is *supposed* to work. But in the cases I mentioned, I had to re-enter the Windows 7 license key to get to activate. The "digital license" for Windows 10 (which as you indicated is the same for all the upgrades) would not work - the Windows 7 license key worked fine. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
