September 4, 20214 yr Is it safe to upgrade my existing VM from Q35-5.1 to Q35-6.0? Will it mess up my Windows license?
September 5, 20214 yr I would say yes, safe, since your vm uuid will be the same together with the vm architecture (q35).
May 21, 20224 yr 14 hours ago, steve1977 said: What about switching from i440fx to Q35? It will probably ask for reactivation, from unraid website: Quote Changing the machine type between i440fx and Q35 under advanced mode will prompt Windows for reactivation of the license. Changing from i440fx to q35 and the other hand is the same as changing the motherboard on a real pc.
April 3, 20251 yr On 5/21/2022 at 9:30 AM, ghost82 said: It will probably ask for reactivation, from unraid website: Changing from i440fx to q35 and the other hand is the same as changing the motherboard on a real pc. Sorry for necro-posting but his is relevant to me. Will the reactivation mean that everything on the vdisk will be lost? Or is it just a matte of retyping the activation key?
April 3, 20251 yr Community Expert 40 minutes ago, Di4rnu said: Sorry for necro-posting but his is relevant to me. Will the reactivation mean that everything on the vdisk will be lost? Or is it just a matte of retyping the activation key? Vdisk will be fine may but the hardware is different so OS will need to be activated. You can copy vdisk and dump the xml to create a copy. Virsh dumpxml vmname
April 4, 20251 yr 8 hours ago, SimonF said: Vdisk will be fine may but the hardware is different so OS will need to be activated. You can copy vdisk and dump the xml to create a copy. Virsh dumpxml vmname Thank you for the quick reply! What do you mean by "dump the xml"? It seems that "Virsh dumpxml vmname" is a command that will give me the xml file.
April 4, 20251 yr Community Expert 38 minutes ago, Di4rnu said: Thank you for the quick reply! What do you mean by "dump the xml"? It seems that "Virsh dumpxml vmname" is a command that will give me the xml file. It will allow you to revert if required. The XML is the VM definition. So you can virsh dumpxml vmname > filename
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