Hey everyone,
I am trying to set up a VM on my Linux Mint pc for Windows 11. I already have the pc dual boot linux and Windows. My goal is to set up a Windows 11 VM and then delete Windows partition from my pc. I don’t want to dual boot into windows anymore, but I need it for a few applications.
Is there a way to get the key I already bought and use it for the VM I am going to set up?
Side note, what VM software do you recommend? VirtualBox seems popular, but would like some advice.
if your windows is an oem license that came with the laptop; then it’s tied to the hardware and they probably won’t let you re-use it for your vm; but i remember seeing some claims online that they’ve figure out ways around it.
I bought the license separately when I built my computer
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.
Thanks so much for the response
i trust that the check for my consultation fee is in the mail? lol
Already on the way lol
Just use this and yes, your key should work. I use one of my W10 pro keys on a VM I host on my homelab proxmox.
use virt manager if you don’t want to mess around with settings; bare qemu-system-* if you have a bunch of patience
Use virt-manager (with KVM). Learn how to install guest tools, then enjoy the performance!
Activate it as shown in the comments!
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
I’m still pretty new to linux. I am using Linux Mint. Is this pretty easy to setup?
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
https://github.com/kkkgo/KMS_VL_ALL
You’re welcome 🤗
There are ways to do it, buy per the EULA all are not allowed.
You should still do it. But be aware that you aren’t supposed to.
One more thing. I needed to enable SVM Mode for virtualization for my AMD CPU, but now my system won’t POST. Any ideas?
Nevermind just had to hard restart
emotional rollercoaster reading these two comments
When using KVM QEMU to install windows 11 VM, had anyone seen the error “cannot load AppArmor profile libvirt” something really long like that. No idea what AppArmor is, but it won’t let me install
