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Subject:    Re: Partial success enabling TPM2 in an existing qemu guest VM
From:       Go Canes <letsgonhlcanes0 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2021-09-24 14:17:23
Message-ID: CAJs_wiUwAsweNzqqUGX4YcYWAtjKvQifp6tw7nT++vSK4cjhCQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 10:09 PM Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com> wrote:
>
> Go Canes writes:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 6:52 PM Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@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.
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