Windows 10: Repurpose Windows licence on VM same machine

I have a PC with a Windows 10 licence that I am planning to rebuild from bare metal with Proxmox VE. One of the VM's I would like to create is the Windows one that I removed to make way for Proxmox. I have a feeling I know the answer to this, but will my existing product key re-activate Windows as a VM?

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Migrating On Prem VM to Azure

Hi Experts, We have a requirement of moving out VMs as is in Azure from Current On-Prem and the process we are following is

1. Create a RAW image from an on-prem VM.
   
2. Convert the RAW image to VHD.
   
3. Move the VHD file to Azure Storage.
   
4. Convert the Disks to managed disks.
   
5. Mount the OS disk to the C drive and other disks respectively.
   

Issue - Once we mount the OS disk we are not able to RDP to the machine we have followed the steps suggested in the below links and as usual there are millions of documents and none point in the right direction unfrotunately.

Links followed to figure out options to get this done -

Prepare a Windows VHD to upload to Azure - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Docs - Microsoft documentation.

Attach an existing OS disk to a VM - Aoperty= - Microsoft documentation.

Upload a VHD to Azure and create a virtual machine - Stephanie Kahlam - Some helpful people created this and

We have tried options

1. Created image from managed disk and tried to initiate the VM and got exception as below
   Provisioning failed.
   OS Provisioning for VM 'demo-1' did not finish in the allotted time. However, the VM guest agent was detected running. This suggests the guest OS has not been properly prepared to be used as a VM image (with CreateOption=FromImage). To resolve this issue, either use the VHD as is with CreateOption=Attach or prepare it properly for use as an image:
   * Instructions for Windows: https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-windows-upload-image/
   * Instructions for Linux: https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-linux-capture-image/.
   
   
   and the suggested solution 1 to use CreateOption=Attach creates the VM but does not allow us to RDP to the machine so we are assuming it's not booting up. The other option suggested in the hyperlink is to create image using SysPrep which is not an option for us as we are performing a lift and shift.
   

I would like to get some guidance from experts on to the right process to follow.

 

Windows 10 licence when used as VM

Hi,

I have a business requirement that needs me to create the following setup: -

Hyper-V (host) or other (like virtualbox) running on a Server with an OS such as Windows Server.

“X” number of virtual machines running windows 10 pro (lets say, 15 virtual machines on the same server running an application for use by a customer via means of an iPhone app - in effect, the windows 10 machine is an SQL workhorse for the users iPhone application).

Questions: -

Can we purchase windows 10 Pro licences for each and every VM from the official microsoft store and will this suffice?

Can we (as the admin) access this device via the hypervisor interface and/or RDP, and still comply with the licencing requirements?

Can our customer (the iPhone users) access the remote desktop using RDP (obviously using the same username and password as the admin).

If this isnt possible, what type of windows licence is needed?

Thanks.

 

Windows 10 licence when used as VM

Thanks Elise,

Does the same still apply if we are selling remote access to this VM to our customer?

We will host the VM on our server in a data centre, and will subsequently host a service for the customer on the windows 10 VM.

Is the customer licenced to access this VM as well as us as the host?

Thanks.