Windows 10: Windows 10 Pro, Hyper-V, Virtual Machine License/Activation questions

I have Windows 10 Pro and I've been experimenting with Hyper-V and Virtual Machine on my personnal computer, Obviously I've not made it to this stage of the process where the answer become the hold-up, but assuming it's coming... Question-1: Do I need to have an additional license to put the same operating system on my Virtual Machine? Question-2: Do I need a new activation code for this Virtual Machine OS? My OS on my original system came preloaded at the time with Windows 7 I think so I have no idea what my activation code would have been when I did the free upgrade to Windows 10 Pro. If t

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Windows 10 guest virtual machine on a Surface Pro 4 using Hyper-V.

There is no such permit in the Windows 10 End User License Agreement. You will need to purchase an additional license to install in Hyper-V just like you would for a virtual machine.

Setup a Virtual Machine with Windows 10 Hyper-V - groovyPost

also

Share Your Network Connection with Hyper-V in ... - groovyPost

 

Where is the Hyper V Manager, How to I start it ?

I am trying to setup an XP virtual Machine on Windows 10 Pro.

I followed the steps in Neil Peterson article of 5/9/2016.

System Requirements - done - ok

Install Hyper-V - done - ok

Create a Virtual Switch - skip

Create a Virtual Machine

Create a Virtual Machine with Hyper-V Manager

These steps walk through how to manually create a virtual machine and deploy an operating system to this virtual machine.

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  In Hyper-V Manager, click Action > New >
  Virtual Machine to bring up the New
  

Uhhhhhhhhh - this step obviously implies one knows

1) Where the Hyper-V Manager is

2) How to start the Hyper-V Manager

Isn't that odd ?

 

Questions on Windows 10 licensing for a Hyper-V VM

I have a Windows 10 Pro machine which supports virtualization.

I want to create a hyper-V VM running Windows 10 as the guest host. I have some questions on licensing and any activation issues that might occur

1. I expect I'll need to buy a 2nd Win 10 license
   • Does it need to be a retail license?
   • Or can I a buy an OEM license? (I’ll always use the 2nd license for a virtual machine on the same PC but never run more then one VM at a time)
2. If i wanted to create multiple VMs (gen-1 and gen-2) could I use that 2nd license each time? Again, assuming i'll never actually having more then one VM running at a time.
3. And just curious: Does anyone know if MS simply recognizes 2 licenses both for the same PC? If I did a fresh reinstall in the future, would it make any difference which license i lthen used for the PC and which for the VM?