Windows 10: activate one instance of Windows 10 guest visrtualbox

Hiya all, I got my Dell latitude with Windows 10 pro installed and I wanted it moved to a virtual machine within Ubuntu host. I already had a similar setup in my old laptop, but with additional dual boot to have the activated version and running unactivated VM guest occasionally. Now I wanted to get rid of the dual boot and have activated Windows 10 VM and after extensive research I managed to create it, activate it but it wouldn't boot without the recovery usb plugged for nothing! I reinstalled the guest Windows 10 from an online download image but have not been able to activate it. I am not

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Guest account option in Windows 10

Hi,

Thank you for the response and keeping the status updated.

I suggest you to turn on guest account and check. Please follow the below steps to enable guest account:

1. Open Command Prompt in Admin mode.

2.First, you have to get the list of all the user accounts of your system and to get the list type the command
net user and click Enter.

3.In order to active Administrator Account, type the following command :

4. To activate the Guest Account type this command:

Please reply with the results, we will be glad to help you further.

Thank you.

 

Guest

Hi Voytek,

To remove the guest account from your start screen, we suggest that you try the following steps:

• Right-click Start menu, then select Command Prompt (Admin).
• Enable guest account first by typing net user guest /active:yes, then press
  Enter.
• Disable guest account by typing net user guest /active:no, then press
  Enter.
• Perform a
  clean boot in Windows.

Let us know how it goes.

Thank you.

 

Windows 10 - Guest Account

Did not work for me.