Possible to Transfer Windows 11 Key to Virtual Machine?

[cold_brew_enema@lemmy.world]

Thanks so much for the response. You said you get terrible performance?

[eldavi@lemmy.ml]

in that case you'll probably be fine and powershell will help you get that key; i think someone else shared the commands in this post.

[cris16228@lemmy.today]

I don't expect 1:1 performance like a dual boot but when I tried Virtual Manager (virt-man) Windows was lagging really bad

[cold_brew_enema@lemmy.world]

Thanks so much for the response

[eldavi@lemmy.ml]

i trust that the check for my consultation fee is in the mail? lol

[captainbasculin@lemmy.bascul.in]

You can simply use the same key to activate your VM. You can get your license key by typing this to command line

wmic path softwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey

Retail keys are meant to be transferable across multiple computers, and even OEM keys are bound to the computer's motherboard. However if there's any problem with activating the VM feel free to use the irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex trick, as even software audits done to corporations just take the billed license count and the PC count that uses Windows as a reference, and don't really care about how you activated Windows.

If you need GPU Passthrough, use VMWare or QEMU. If you don't, any virtualisation software should do the trick.

[cold_brew_enema@lemmy.world]

Could it have been your hardware on the host? My computer is pretty beefy

[cold_brew_enema@lemmy.world]

Already on the way lol

[cris16228@lemmy.today]

My host maybe?
Ryzen 7 5800x
32GB RAM (8/16 to Windows)
Installed on a SSD
GPU (useful?) RX 6950XT

[wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works]

My guess is you didn't install virtio drivers. That should help immensely with graphic acceleration.

[maniel@sopuli.xyz]

Maybe the virtualization was disabled

[cold_brew_enema@lemmy.world]

Thanks so much! My use case is I just want to be able to run Studio One from the VM for music production. I don't think I need much GPU power for that

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

I would avoid VirtualBox because it’s from Oracle, but that’s me. KVM is close to the metal (it’s in the name: Kernel-based Virtual Machine). Takes a bit more setup (depending on your familiarity with things). I’d go there.

[dinckelman@lemmy.world]

You can keep your existing partition, and just mount the disk in a libvirt/qemu on kvm setup. Here is a good place to start

[dukatos@lemm.ee]

VGA driver sucks on KVM but it is still usable.

[cold_brew_enema@lemmy.world]

I'm still pretty new to linux. I am using Linux Mint. Is this pretty easy to setup?

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

Or Qemu if you want a similar interface.

[dinckelman@lemmy.world]

If you know how to use VB, using Virtmanager wouldn't be too different. You'll have to find how these are packaged for your distribution, but the instructions for everything else on the wiki will be helpful regardless of the distro

[richardisaguy@lemmy.world]

use virt manager if you don't want to mess around with settings; bare qemu-system-* if you have a bunch of patience

[cris16228@lemmy.today]

Maybe. I should try again at home.