Re: Native Windows to qemu-kvm?

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On 10/25/22 14:11, Greg Woods wrote:
A problem you could run into doing this is licensing. WIndows uses a variety of methods to detect if a valid product key is being run on multiple machines, which includes some checks on the hardware. Since a virtual machine is never going to have virtual hardware that exactly matches your PC, there's a good chance that, even if you succeed in getting your native install to run under a hypervisor, Windows may well consider it an unlicensed copy.

I recently had a Windows 10 VM that this happened to when I just upgraded Virtual Box, didn't touch the Windows VM at all.

--Greg



Hi Greg,

My Windows 11 Pro VM is not licensed.  It won't
let me set up a screen saver or alter my wallpaper.
I do not care.  I only use it to research
things for customers.  It is not a very nice
OS.

W11 pulled the same thing you talk about where
it only worked once with W10's key until I
changed some virtual hardware, which I do
all the time.

On the bright wide, teh customer has an non-oem
tag on the side of his computer.

But the age of the computer bars me from running
a VM anyway.  And he readlly should get a new
computer for what he wants to do anyway.

-T

At last count, I have 13 VM's set up.  Some of
them are for test ISO's and USB drives.
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