Windows 10: How can I find the physical location of these ports on my machine?

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Transfer VirtualBox machine to physical machine

Hi there

Actually this process can be quite simple in the case of W10 --

The process in general is called V2P or "Virtual to Physical".

What you need to do is as follows

1) Power on your VM .

2) Obtain a copy of free Macrium and install on your VM.

3) UNINSTALL VM additions (if VBOX) or VMWARE TOOLS if running using VMWARE --don't re-boot the Vm after this as otherwise your video resolution will be wrong and make running the next step (step 4) more difficult -- you just don't want to have VMware tools or vbox additions on the new Windows installation on the physical machine !!!

4) Run the macrium program (from the VM) to create a Disk IMAGE (not a clone) of your VM. copy All the partitions.

5) Create a bootable restore version of the Macrium Free program and boot it.

6) Restore the image you created in step 4 to your "C" drive (or a bootable HDD).

7) now boot it. --the first time you might get a boot error --use the windows recovery disc / usb to fix this.

8) Windows will now boot -- and usually pretty well all drivers it needs will be found easily enough automatically.

I've done this loads of times with VM's created via VMware --there's no reason to suppose that the process is any different with VBOX. You might need to attempt to do the boot repair a couple of times - or you could be lucky and not need to do it at all.

Note - you will probably be asked to re-activate Windows after this process -- technically it's a new installation on to a different machine. You *could* get lucky and find activation isn't required. If the original VM was created from an OEM version of Windows (i.e one that was pre-installed on the old machine) it probably won't activate. If it is RETAIL or has a multiple licence (corporate / enterprise etc) then if any problems with activation Microsoft will have no problems activating by phone. Unlike most hideous calls to Indian call centres (Banks, utility companies, internet providers etc) it's a quick and painless process if you have to do it.

If the VM is merely being restored to the ORIGINAL physical machine it was created on then the original key should still work.

If none of these work the old "get around" is still working -- install a version of W7 that is of similar build to your W10 --e.g HOME, PRO, ULTIMATE and then just upgrade to W10 - After an initial upgrade restore your W10 image which should now be activated. - Not sure how long this loophole will last as it's been over a year since the "Free upgrade" technically ended.


Cheers
jimbo

 

Physical Machine not connected to Hyper-V systems

Thanks for your reply.

I am have connected my Physical machine in outside network. I cannot use my Physical machine NIC card to communicate with Hyper-V machines. Hence i am trying to connected Physical machine with Hyper-v through Virtual LAN.

On physical machine vEthernet (Defalut switch) showing Unidentified Network

 

Move windows 10 pro license from virtual machine to physical machine.

I need to move a windows 10 pro license from a virtual machine to a physical machine. The license has been bought as windows 10 pro not upgrade etc. The thing is that the computer (Mac book pro) where the virtual machine used to live is now dead beyond
repair and to expensive to use. So I want to install windows 10 on a dell laptop now but I cant deactivate the old license on the virtual machine. Any suggestions?