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Re:Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windo... by nly on Friday August 14, 2015 @08:48AM (#10059817)
Well changing the virtual disk UUID is enough to deactivate Windows 10 in Virtualbox. I've not tried changing NIC MACs

This means if you upgrade a retail copy of W7 uin a VBox and later clone, recreate or convert the hard drive image, you'll have to manually set the UUID.

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Re:Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windo... by agumonkey on Friday August 14, 2015 @10:41AM (#10060321)
There are articles where a guy hacks into it's hard drive controller, which I believe is the gateway to the drive ID and such, surely you can fake anything these days.

So let's spoof our hardware so that Windows still believes.

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