Windows 10: Windows activation in KVM/qemu virtual machine

Hello,

I have a problem with the activation of Win10 Pro.

I have a digital license win7 upgrade in 2015 or something like that...


I reinstalled my virtual machine with some new tweaks etc. the problem is now that I cannot activate Windows anymore with my Microsoft account even if I delete all devices in my Microsoft Account it still says there is no valid license found.

Windows displays Error Code 0xC004F213 which means no product key found.


Seems to be a problem with the Microsoft licensing database because I cannot activate my Windows with my account even if I select hardware changed etc.


Any advise what I can try...


Best regards

Silas

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qemu-kvm

virt-manager is the gui that can be used to do exactly this.

from the open source project:QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance.

When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. QEMU supports virtualization when executing under the Xen hypervisor or using the KVM kernel module in Linux. When using KVM, QEMU can virtualize x86, server and embedded PowerPC, and S390 guests.

 

qemu-kvm

It will not run under Windows as KVM is a kernel-level virtualization built for the Linux kernel.

It allows remote management (through KVM) using VNC (password optional, but I do recommend one.)

You don't need X installed on the server. You can install X Server on a windows machine, open an X tunnel using SSH, and open virt-manager and it will be displayed on your Windows box. I work with KVM in a business environment and it is a very nice platform (we have something like 8 QEMU/KVM virtual machines in production running on a dual-quad core xeon server with hyperthreading and 24gb of memory). Virt-manager makes it very easy to manage QEMU/KVM but the CLI tools gives you much more control.

I thought it could only run under the architecture it was compiled for.

 

qemu-kvm

ive been screwing around with enterprise level virtualization and i have to say the package that comes with centos/redhat 6 is quite good. qemu-kvm is very very fast when virtualizing linux systems. all of this is done on the command line and i could not be happier.