Windows 10: How to recover Preloaded Windows 10 license key to use in Linux VM

Hi,I bought an HP ENVY laptop in 2020 with preloaded Windows 10. Since then I have had to reformat and/or reinstall Windows about 6 times. Everytime the technician said the issue was with the OS.I would like to try installing Linux as OS with Windows 10 in a VM. Is there a way to recover the Windows license key before?Please note that at present I am unable to reset the laptop. Every time I try there seems to be a problem and the operation stops and I get the blue screen again.

:)

 

Recover Windows 10 Product Key from inside Linux

I bought a Acer Spin 3 laptop with Windows 10 on it. Then I deleted Windows from my machine and installed Linux (Ubuntu). Now I want to re-install Windows 10 on a virtual machine inside my Ubuntu installation. Is there a way to recover the Product Key from my previous Windows installation to use for the Windows inside my VM?

 

Licensing Windows 10 within VMs

I'm a developer, and I'm sorta paranoid, so all my computers run Linux in work mode. I have a HDD with an official install of W7 for gaming, but some of my customers need me into Windows. So the natural answer is a Virtual Machine.

• Can I buy a license of W10 and then install into a VM?
• Or (better) upgrade one of my test VMs with an official license and begin to work with it?
• Will I be able to run multiple instances of that VM (never simultaneous, just one instance each time, in my laptop when I'm out OR my desktop when I'm home)?

I did my search about it, but I cannot find explicit clear answers, just some ppl (assumed Microsoft staff) saying yes, and some (assumed Ms staff too) saying no.

I also bought TWO "cheap" licenses of W10 in Amazon from a digital store, and the activation center denies them. I can live with it, because they were really cheap and I bought them as a test before spending real cash into an official license to see it not
working.

 

how many license required for a windows 2012 r2 host 50 linux VMs

hi

referring to page 8 of https://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/Downloader.aspx?documenttype=SPUR&lang=English

1. Standard edition

· Standard edition permits use of the server software in one
OSE on the Licensed Server.

· Standard edition permits use of one
Running Instance of the server software in the
Physical OSE
on the Licensed Server (in addition to one
Virtual OSE), if the Physical OSE
is used solely to host and Manage the
Virtual OSE.

Customer may assign additional Standard edition Licenses to the
Licensed Server equal to the number specified in 2 above and run the server software in one additional
OSE on the Licensed Server

is it applied for windows OS or all operating system linux and windows ?

so in my case phyical server host 50 linux VM

standard edition license for the physical host is enough ? or i have to assign additional standard license for Linux VMs ?