Windows 10: How to activate Windows 11 Home Retail in VMware Fusion for Mac?

Hello! I have a Windows 11 Home Retail license which is activated on a PC. I also have a Macbook and I would like to activate the license in a VMware Fusion Professional 13.6.1 Windows virtual machine. The problem is I encounter the following error: "Windows reported that no product key was found on device. Error code: 0xC004F213." I clicked on "`Troubleshoot" and "I changed hardware on device recently" but it is unable to activate. I must tell you that I am connected with the Microsoft account that is linked to the license.Has anyone encountered the same problem or have any idea how to solv

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Windows 10 Activation within VMWare Fusion

I just moved from using bootcamp on my Mac to virtualizing Windows 10 within VMWare Fusion Pro 11 for my Mac. Windows 10 had the digital activation key in bootcamp but now I cannot get Windows to reactivate since I have reinstalled windows 10 in VMWare.
I can see that some of the "hardware" has changed, not really, but what Microsoft is seeing it has since it is coming through the VMWare client.

Does anyone know how to reactivate Windows within VMWare? Also, where in the world can I actually chat with a Microsoft Rep? The online chat always forces me to call Microsoft.

Josh

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VMWare Fusion and Windows 3.1

VMWare Fusion seems to be great for running Windows on a Mac.

Can Windows 3.1 be installed and run on it?

 

Re-Activating Windows 10 in a Vmware Fusion VM based on a Boot Camp Partition?

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

As per the issue description, I see that you have installed 2 multi-boot utilities, i.e., Boot Camp and VMware Fusion on your Mac.

If you have installed Windows 10 on your Boot Camp and activated it, then you cannot activate Windows 10 on VMware Fusion using the same license key, which you used for Boot Camp. You need to have different Windows 10 licenses for Boot Camp and VMware Fusion.

If you want to install Windows 10 on both Boot Camp and VMware Fusion, then you need to have 2 different licenses.

Hope it helps.

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