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Re:Booting a physical Windows 10 disk on Linux using VirtualBox by 8_hours_ago on Friday November 09, 2018 @06:02AM (#18413643)
I did this many years ago with a dual boot computer and Windows (7 iirc) kept complaining about needing to be reactivated when I’d switch between running natively and virtualized. Has that been fixed on Windows 10?
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Re:Booting a physical Windows 10 disk on Linux using VirtualBox by nhauz on Friday November 09, 2018 @06:53AM (#18413811)
If you substantially change the hardware of your computer, you are supposed to get a new licence because it's like it is another computer. It's not a bug but a feature.
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Re:Booting a physical Windows 10 disk on Linux using VirtualBox by jamieweb on Friday November 09, 2018 @07:19AM (#18413887)
In my case, the first time I fully booted the Windows 10 disk was in the VM. I wonder if this counted as a 'change' or does it think that the VM is the original hardware now?
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Re:Booting a physical Windows 10 disk on Linux using VirtualBox by 8_hours_ago on Friday November 09, 2018 @09:29AM (#18414563)
I bet that if you tried to boot the disk naitively then Windows would want to be activated.
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Re:Booting a physical Windows 10 disk on Linux using VirtualBox by jamieweb on Friday November 09, 2018 @10:14AM (#18414952)
Maybe! Windows seems to be activated just fine in the VM.
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Re:Booting a physical Windows 10 disk on Linux using VirtualBox by beagle3 on Friday November 09, 2018 @08:52AM (#18414293)
It’s a feature for Microsoft, but a bug as far as the users are concerned.
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Re:Booting a physical Windows 10 disk on Linux using VirtualBox by nhauz on Friday November 09, 2018 @09:10AM (#18414409)
If you want to use Windows without paying for a licence you can just install kmspico.
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Re:Booting a physical Windows 10 disk on Linux using VirtualBox by beagle3 on Friday November 09, 2018 @02:28PM (#18417150)
What most people want is to pay and then not worry about random downgrades and deactivations, even if they upgrade a parr or two, or boot the same machine indirectly through a hyper visor.

Apparently, Microsoft does not or cannot deliver this, and as we’ve seen this week may randomly downgrade your system even if nothing changed.

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