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If activation per device is stored online, what does this mean for VMs? What kind of "device" does a VM look like?
by vatys 11y ago
If activation per device is stored online, what does this mean for VMs? What kind of "device" does a VM look like?
- WalterGR 11y agoI'm wondering the same thing. Even trickier: on a Mac using VMWare Fusion, you can have a Windows partition that you can both boot into and run as a VM within OS X.
- Arnout 11y agoI last tried the bootcamp/vmware setup with a Vista partition; it really confused the activation system and kept de-activating.
- wila 11y agoYou cannot run windows 10 upgrade on a bootcamp machine that you also use as a VM for the moment. What has been reported to work is to buy Windows 10 license and then you can use the machine on bootcamp as well as via VM. More details here: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/516838 https://communities.vmware.com/thread/516838
- jcoby 11y agoFWIW I upgraded to windows 10 on my bootcamp partition 100% through vmware fusion using the official win10 iso. I got the same error you linked until the latest rollup fix (which put my install into a boot loop due to nvidia geforce creating a phantom user but that's a whole different problem). Once I installed the rollup it gave a different error and then took a day or two for the activation servers to finally work and activate the install. I only run windows natively to play games so it only runs for 2-3 hours at a time. It took until yesterday to get it all sorted out. I installed win10 within a few hours of the iso going up.
- wila 11y agoThat's great news! Thanks for the heads up. If possible please also post this at the forum thread that I referred to.
- reirob 11y agoDoing the same on Linux box with Windows 7: a partition with Linux and a partition with Windows 7 + NTFS partition for data that is visible on both. You can boot both systems or use the same Windows in a VM under Linux. But it was tricky to build that VM. I followed instructions from [0], but don't remember if I had any troubles. Even if Windows itself when running in the VM, MS Office complains that it's not registered - I guess MS Office uses a different method to determine if it runs on the same hardware. Was not worth to bother for me because I have to use Windows only short times from the VM - and if I have to use it over extended periods I boot directly to it. But it would have been slick if it worked 100%. [0] http://geekery.amhill.net/2010/01/27/virtualbox-with-existing-windows-partition/ http://geekery.amhill.net/2010/01/27/virtualbox-with-existin...
- bryanlarsen 11y agoSome versions of Windows (like Windows Server 2012 R2) will run for 6 months without activation, so if you can capture your setup steps completely in your Vagrantfile, it can be easier to rebuild your VM every 6 months than worry about activations.
- nly 11y agoWell changing the virtual disk UUID is enough to deactivate Windows 10 in Virtualbox. I've not tried changing NIC MACs This means if you upgrade a retail copy of W7 uin a VBox and later clone, recreate or convert the hard drive image, you'll have to manually set the UUID.
- agumonkey 11y agoThere are articles where a guy hacks into it's hard drive controller, which I believe is the gateway to the drive ID and such, surely you can fake anything these days. So let's spoof our hardware so that Windows still believes.
- benkuykendall 11y agoAdditionally, could you create multiple VMs in a way which gives them the same hardware hash? That could allow for re-use of a license.