On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 10:09 PM Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> wrote:
Go Canes writes:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 6:52 PM Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com>
> wrote:
> > Windows did boot, but came up in 640x480 mode with basic drivers,
> > unactivated, and refused to activate, wanting me to pay for a license.
> > The explanation it gave me: new hardware. This was a retail license,
> though,
> > which should be transferable.
>
> When I upgraded some VMs running Windows 7 on VirtualBox to Windows 10
> on KVM I had to re-enter the license key for some of them. When you
> say it "refused to activate" did you mean that you re-entered the key
> and it rejected it? Or that it just didn't automatically accept the
> pre-existing key?
The license key is used only when upgrading to Win10. From that point, Win
10 uses some kind of a digital entitlement license. All Win 7 seats that get
a free upgade to Win 10 show the sam
Yes, that is how it is *supposed* to work. But in the cases I
mentioned, I had to re-enter the Windows 7 license key to get to
activate. The "digital license" for Windows 10 (which as you
indicated is the same for all the upgrades) would not work - the
Windows 7 license key worked fine.