Windows 10: Issues trying to create a VM on Windows 11 Pro

HelloI have Windows 11 Home, installed on my laptop, and I just upgraded it to Pro.I went into "Optional Features" and added "Hyper-V" & "Virtual Machine Platform". Both show selected when I go back into "Optional Features". And I did reboot the laptop,When I try to start Hyper-V Manager nothing happens. No errors and nothing tries to start.Any idea what is going on?Thanks!

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Trouble Reusing Windows 11 Pro Product Key/Retail License on New VM After Original VM Corruption

I'm encountering an issue with my Windows 11 Pro product key/retail license. Initially, I used this key to activate Windows on a virtual machine (VM). Unfortunately, that VM isntance became corrupted, preventing me from deactivating the windows properly. I've since created a new VM and attempted to activate it using the same product key. However, I'm receiving an error message stating that the product key is already in use, likely because I couldn't deactivate it on the original VM.

Has anyone else faced this problem? What steps can I take to resolve this issue and successfully activate Windows on my new VM? Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

 

Problem activating Windows 11 after switching VMs

Hi there,

I purchased Windows 11 Home a couple of months ago and installed it on a VirtualBox VM. But VirtualBox was crashing quite a bit so I deactivated Windows 11 using the following commands:

• slmgr /upk
  
• slmgr /cpky
  

(as suggested on Redirecting ) and then installed it on a VMWare VM. Problem is, I can't activate Windows on the new VM even though it was deactivated on the old VM. I tried the recommended Troubleshooting Wizard solutions to no available and I couldn't find a Microsoft email address or support number, so I am posting here. Can anyone suggest how to contact Microsoft about this activation issue?

Thanks,

Darryl

PS: I have already deleted the old VM so I can't log back onto it.

 

Unable to create Win11 VM with OS Image under 126GB

Hello,

My goal is to create a Win11 image in Azure with a OS disk size of 80GB (so it can be used as an image for AWS Workspace).

I can see that the UI in Azure does not let me create a VM with a disk size of less than 126GB.

I can also see that you cannot reduce the size of the OS disk once it's created.

Since I cannot create it on the UI, I am trying to create it using PS but I am running into issues:

Step 1: Create Disk with WIndows as OS and 80GB as disk size:

$diskconfig = New-AzDiskConfig -Location $location -DiskSizeGB 80 -AccountType Standard_LRS -OsType Windows -CreateOption Empty

$disk = New-AzDisk -ResourceGroupName "AIBManagedIDRG" -DiskName "win11small" -Disk $diskconfig

Step 2: Set the VM config and the OS Disk (Giving it the DIsk ID I created in step 1)

$vm_adfs = New-AzVMConfig -VMName "win11small" -VMSize "Standard_DS1_V2"

$vm = Set-AzVMOSDisk -VM $vm_adfs -ManagedDiskId $disk.Id -CreateOption FromImage -Windows

Step 3: Set the OS and add the Network Interface:

$vm = Set-AzVMOperatingSystem -VM $vm -Windows -ComputerName "win11" -Credential $vm_cred -ProvisionVMAgent -EnableAutoUpdate

$vm = Add-AzVMNetworkInterface -VM $vm -Id "/subscriptions/xxx-xxx-xx-xx/resourceGroups/AIBManagedIDRG/providers/Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/myNic"

$vm = Set-AzVMSourceImage -VM $vm_adfs -PublisherName 'MicrosoftWindowsDesktop' -Offer 'windows-11' -Skus 'win11-23h2-ent' -Version latest

Step 4: Create the VM:

New-AzVM -ResourceGroupName "AIBManagedIDRG" -Location "uksouth" -VM $vm -Verbose

When I try to create the VM, I get the following error:
ErrorCode: InvalidParameter

ErrorMessage: Parameter 'osDisk.managedDisk.id' is not allowed.

ErrorTarget: osDisk.managedDisk.id

StatusCode: 400

Can someone please help me with this?

What am I doing wrong?

Kind Regards,
Dean