Windows 10: Activation of Win 10 pro transfer to a VM on a different computer.

J have just transferred the full contents including Win10 pro with a a valid product key from an old desktop which is being scrapped to a VM running on an external drive on a new iMac computer using Parallels. The transfer was successful and all runs exactly as I want except the product key is not accepted. I have done the troubleshooting and it noted a hardware change but there is no advice.

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Windows 10 Pro activation on a VM

I'm not seeing this question answered, or anything like it, so here goes: some years ago, I took advantage of the free upgrade from 7 to 10 Home. I then purchased a license to upgrade 10 Home to 10 Pro. A few months back, this machine was lost when the system
drive failed catastrophically. However, I recently found that I had made a VM image of it (which I'd forgotten about), and I can bring it up under VirtualBox to recover some things that were otherwise lost. This is great, but...Win 10 Pro won't activate. Things
I've tried that failed:

(1) Using the license on the outside of the computer - this is presumably the original Win 7 license and it doesn't work, no surprise.

(2) Using the Activation Troubleshooter and telling it "I recently changed hardware" - this says it can't be activated. Oddly, though, when I look at my Microsoft account, it shows the VM as running Win10 Pro and it says "No problems detected." You would
think the lack of activation would show up there but apparently not.

(3) Calling support and getting transferred and then transferred again and finally giving up after 20 minute on hold and an hour overall.

(4) Running "SLUI 4" from Powershell - it returns a blank.

(5) Poking around the registry and finding that there are keys there for both DigitalProductId and DigitalProductId4.

I'm pretty much out of ideas for things to try. Maybe it's just the case that a VM is never going to be considered a valid instance for purposes of the old license, but it doesn't seem like I should have to pay again considering that I bought the 10 Home
to 10 Pro upgrade. And that reminds me of another problem, that purchase was made so long ago that it no longer appears in the list of purchases under my Microsoft account. If it did, presumably the Win10 Pro digital key would be available there, but no such
luck.

 

Windows 10 VM activation

Hi,

I am trying to setup two Windows 10 vms for test purposes on Ovirt virtualization cluster. (Windows 10 Pro with MAK key from visual studio (MSDN) subscription).

Activation of the first vm encountered no problem, but activation of the second one failed. I have tried to setup second vm by all available means (by cloning from the first one with or without sysprep, from activated state or from clean installed snapshot,
by installing second vm from scratch, etc.). All are with the same results: The last product key you entered XXXXX can't be used on this copy of Windows (0xC0EA0003).

Is it possible to have several Win 10 vms on the same hypervisor, activated with MAK key?

Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

 

Upgrade win 10 home to win 10 pro, keep win 10 home activation key for VM?

My current OS is Win 10 home, upgraded from win 8.1. It is an OEM installation.

I have the activation key saved in a safe place.

I also have a vmware vm running the same OS (win 10 home) with the same

activation key (yes, I know that won't work for the long term as the vm or

guest OS requires a new activation key).

I want to upgrade the host OS to win 10 pro (via the Settings/Update &

Security/Activation/Go to Store button, while still being able to use the

guest OS (win 10 home) and original activation key. Is this possible?

My fear is the original activation key for win 10 home will be nullified.

End result, win 10 pro as host OS, win 10 home as guest OS, TWO LEGAL keys.

Note: I already created a win 10 home ISO and USB drive using the

MediaCreationToolx64.

Thanks for your time.