Windows 10: How do I transfer a virtual machine in windows 10 pro to another machine using windows 11 pro

Have virtual machine running in win10 pro and can`t transfer it or copy it to win 11 pro in hyper v

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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?

 

transferring a pro upgrade from an old windows 10 machine to a new windows 11 machine.

i just purchased a new pc with windows 11 home. my old pc used windows 10 home that i upgraded with a digital license to pro. i can see the evidence of the pro upgrade in my windows account. how do i transfer the pro upgrade from my old windows 10 machine to my new windows 11 machine?

 

Unable to transfer Windows 11 Pro retail license to a new machine

We are looking to buy 20-25 Windows Pro retail licenses for business use.

We had following goals

• Licenses will be owned by business and not become property of employee. License installed on machine of one employee can be removed from existing machine and applied to machine of new employee
  
• Licenses will be able to transfer between devices in case of device failure
  
• Don't want to enter agreement/contracts needed for volume licensing
  

For that purpose, we had determined that Windows Pro retail/fpp license which costs $199 will be suitable. I purchased 1 license to test if it will be able to transfer from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-pro/dg7gmgf0d8h4.

1. I created a virtual machine, installed windows 11 pro and applied license I purchased. It applied successfully and window become activate. At this point, this virtual machine was linked to Azure Active Directory domain. It shown message "Windows is activated with a digital license"
   
2. I created another virtual machine, installed 11 pro. Joined virtual machine to same Azure Active directory domain. Tried to applied same license which was applied to virtual machine 1. It gave error saying that it was already in use on another machine which was correct at this point
   
3. I then ran `slmgr /upk` and `slmgr /cpky` command on machine 1. It removed product key from machine 1. I then tried to apply same product key on machine 2. It still gave error that license is already in use which is not true and it should have activated.
   
4. I tried several things but nothing seem to resolve issue including restarting both machines several times,
   
5. Tried Reset this pc on machine 1 didn't work
   
6. Tried phone activation. Number shown for my country is not responding. I tried US phone number, it asked me all information including installation id but it also responded that key is already in use and didn't provide me with confirmation id
   

Another thing to note is that even if I run slmgr /upk on machine 1, if I click troubleshoot activation on it, it automatically activates that machine again. This leads me to believe that slmgr /upk command isn't fully removing product key from old machine

Left = Machine 1, Right = Machine 2