Hi all, > Am 27.12.2017 um 18:15 schrieb Alan Somers <[email protected]> > I fear that you may be out of luck. Windows deliberately frustrates this > use case by profiling its hardware at installation time and at every boot > thereafter. If the hardware changes too much, then Windows demands a new > license fee. Moving from physical hardware to a VM would probably trip > every one of its alarms.
Correct. But we are talking Windows 7 here. It will lose it's activation for sure, but as far as my experience goes you can always reactivate Windows 7 with the same keycode (unless it was a counterfeit one and is intentionally blocked). As a last resort MS offers a phone dialog system that has always worked for me. > For this reason, I would recommend using a > separate instance for your VM. However, if you do use a shared instance, > then make sure that your PC is booting in UEFI mode. BHyve can only boot > Windows in that mode. If you do that, then BHyve will probably be able to > boot it just fine. This is actually the bigger of the two obstacles. If the original installation is MBR booting, I don't know of a way to convert it to EFI. If you happen to have some genuine not "OEM" Windows 7 install medium *and* your original key, you should be able to do a fresh installation and complete activation - via phone if necessary. HTH, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Kaiserallee 13a Tel.: 0721 9109-0 Fax: -100 76133 Karlsruhe [email protected] http://punkt.de AG Mannheim 108285 Gf: Juergen Egeling _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
