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 same license key, post upgrade.
Windows 10 only offered to sell a license, in order to activate itself,
before I reverted the snapshot.