• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Windows 10 links their license to the motherboard.

    So as long as you use the same motherboard, the key will work.

    This isn’t possible with VMs sadly.

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      1 year ago

      You can extract the SLIC value from the ACPI table, and then pass it through to QEMU

      See more details here: https://gist.github.com/Informatic/49bd034d43e054bd1d8d4fec38c305ec

      It is my understanding that this can only be used to run the OEM license one one instance in a VM, on the specific hardware that is originally licensed. IE, you virtualize the license if the bootOS is Linux, but you can’t run 2 instances of the same windows license inside each other.