Using Installing Windows 10 in/on VMware

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I want to install my Windows 10 as a virtual machine on VMware.

How will I be able to register the installation since my Windows 10 is registered on the host (this) machine?

Chuck Billow

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I have not used VMware to install Windows 10, but I have recently installed Windows 10 on VirtualBox. I did not activate it and simply chose the “I don’t have a license key” option when installing, but it is possible to purchase a license key at any later date and you can use that to activate Windows after installing it.

Note that a virtual machine is, for all intents and purposes, considered by Windows and Microsoft to be a completely different machine from your host machine, so Windows activations will not carry over. Thus, if you install Windows in a virtual machine, you either need to purchase a new activation from Microsoft, or use Windows without activating it.

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Sigh.  OK thanks.

Chuck Billow

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Is that true for Office 365 as well?

Chuck Billow

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That would count against the limit of your Office 365 installations.

Any OS you install in a VM which would require a license outside the VM requires its own unique license inside the VM.

--Joe

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