Trying to Convert a Windows 10 OEM Physical Installation to KVM

This post began with the question of whether I could convert a physical Windows 10 installation to a VM that would run in KVM.

Transplanting Windows 10 Pro OEM License to KVM

Installing OEM branded media of Windows Server 2008 under KVM ... I have never done this, but I have turned a MS Windows partition to a VHD and ...

Convert existing Windows 10 install to VM for VFIO - Reddit

15 votes, 30 comments. I have a PC right now that has windows 10 (non-OEM license). Is there a way I can convert this to a VM to use for a ...

Windows 10 UEFI Physical to KVM/libvirt Virtual - Super User

The short version is this: download the virtio-win iso on the host machine. Add it to the VM as a CD-ROM drive. Then, boot into the VM, navigate ...

Convert a Windows Installation into a unRAID (KVM) Virtual Machine

Because Windows is now running as a Virtual Machine on KVM, it will think there is new “hardware” and will require (and benefit from) having the ...

Windows 10 on KVM - YouTube

In this video we are going to install Windows 10 on KVM. The process is quite straight forward and you need to download the Spice Tools for ...

Transferring Windows 10 license to virtual machine

Hello I've just built a server and set up a KVM hypervisor on it, and now I want to transfer a little-used mini PC with a Window 10 license ...

Using OEM license for windows 10 Pro - VM Engine (KVM) - Unraid

I converted my physical Windows 10 machine to a VM on unRaid and ... I'm not planning to try and convert the drive to a vdisk unless I ...

Activating a KVM/QEMU Windows 10/11 Guest with a OEM Device ...

All we need to do is provide a way for the activation software to link to your hardware license and for that only the VM uuid is necessary. As ...

[SOLVED] Running Windows 10 in both bare-metal and KVM/QEMU

To trick Windows activation into believing that you haven't changed your hardware a lot, we need to translate parts of the acpi information from ...

Boot Your Windows Partition from Linux using KVM ::

Using a Windows installation ISO, boot your virtual machine into a Windows installer, open the console, and use diskpart and bcdboot to configure the EFI volume ...

Migrating a VirtualBox Windows Virtual Machine to QEMU/KVM/virt ...

The ultimate goal of this was to migrate my Windows 10 install from VirtualBox to QEMU, because VirtualBox is becoming increasingly difficult to install on ...

Windows 10 in KVM: change boot disk to Virtio - Super User

Open VM post install. · Right click the iso file, and select mount. It will now show as mounted, and you can update driver by driver in Device ...

Converting windows 10 from Physical to VM - Unraid Forums

hi guys, I need some help/advice on what's best to do here is my situation: windows 10 pro installed on physical, digitally licensed after ...

How to Virtualise an Existing Windows Install using Proxmox

Comments101 · Converting a Physical system to a Proxmox VM · Proxmox 8 Makes Installing Windows 11 a Breeze + 5 Simple Tweaks · Remote Gaming! · How ...

Moving a vm from vmware to kvm. - Virtualization - openSUSE Forums

It's a windows 10 image. Converting disk image format is trivial. The real problem is potentially different underlying hardware. Make sure you ...

OEM key able to be used on VM? - Windows 10 Forums

The hard drive plays no part in this hardware ID so you are free to change that for another one. ... Windows 10 installed. Run: slmgr /dlv ...

Converting WIN10 install to VM - Level1Techs Forums

The way you do this depends on the level of implementation you are looking for. If you want to convert the disc image to a QCOW2 there are tools ...

[SOLVED] Complete image of HD and Windows license "transfer" on ...

... physical PC and this causing the OEM installation to ... I have actually tried qemu & libvert on a full retail disk installation converted ...

Converted a laptop from VirtualBox to KVM - 2 issues and some ...

Windows machines lost their Activation - what can you do to prevent this. · Cannot resize Virtual Machine Window - tried many choices with the ...