Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windows 10

Re:Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windo... by wila on Friday August 14, 2015 @08:56AM (#10059854)

You cannot run windows 10 upgrade on a bootcamp machine that you also use as a VM for the moment.

What has been reported to work is to buy Windows 10 license and then you can use the machine on bootcamp as well as via VM.

More details here: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/516838

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Re:Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windo... by jcoby on Friday August 14, 2015 @09:41AM (#10060031)

FWIW I upgraded to windows 10 on my bootcamp partition 100% through vmware fusion using the official win10 iso.

I got the same error you linked until the latest rollup fix (which put my install into a boot loop due to nvidia geforce creating a phantom user but that's a whole different problem).

Once I installed the rollup it gave a different error and then took a day or two for the activation servers to finally work and activate the install. I only run windows natively to play games so it only runs for 2-3 hours at a time.

It took until yesterday to get it all sorted out. I installed win10 within a few hours of the iso going up.

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Re:Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windo... by wila on Friday August 14, 2015 @09:54AM (#10060096)

That's great news!

Thanks for the heads up.

If possible please also post this at the forum thread that I referred to.

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