On 17/12/2020 21:55, PeterMerchant wrote: > On 17/12/2020 16:34, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've had enough of VirtualBox's glitchiness, so I'm going to move as >> many of my VMs to KVM/QEMU with virt-manager as possible. This should >> also be more performant, or so I hear. >> >> I've done this before with Linux VMs and it's fairly easy, but I was >> wondering if anyone has heard of a way to move an activated Windows >> install without deactivating it? Mine is an OEM copy, so I'll have to >> pay for it again if it deactivates. >> >> I could of course just leave that one alone, but it'd be good to get >> them all working in KVM. I sadly have to keep VirtualBox around for a >> few things, but might as well minimise those. >> >> Hamish >> >> > Admin, the next meeting date in the footer needs correcting. > > PM.
NB: I did find a way of doing this, if anyone's interested. Of course, I'm not suggesting any do this to avoid paying the license fee when they haven't already paid for the operating system, rather to virtualise an existing Windows install or move between VM hypervisors on the same hardware. The links: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/reactivating-windows-10-after-a-hardware-change-2c0e962a-f04c-145b-6ead-fb3fc72b6665 and: https://gist.github.com/Informatic/49bd034d43e054bd1d8d4fec38c305ec Provide some useful information for doing this. In my experience you still have to reinstall the OS, rather than just cloning, but hopefully this is still useful to someone. Hamish
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