March 31, 201610 yr Apologies if this has been asked before but i'm just starting out here and appreciate that these may be simplistic if not completely off beam questions to the more knowledgeable out there. I have a couple of Win81 licenses and wonder if it's possible to use these across more than 2 vms? The vms would be specific use only and therefore no more than the 2 (in fact most probably just 1) would be in use at any one time. Is it accepted practice to 'double up' in this way and if so how can i clone the initial vm to its sibling? I'm worried that if i start building vms as a learning curve that i will have no backups. Are there ways and means of imaging each vm after i've managed to set it up?
April 2, 201610 yr I believe that the official answer is that each VM would need its own license. You can copy the disk underlying a VM to create a new one, but you will find on starting it that it is recognised as being different so any activation status is lost. You may well be able to go through the process of contacting Microsoft to get the second VM activated as well (using the same process as transferring the license to a new physical machine) but this is technically against the license terms though I suspect you would get away with it as Microsoft is only really interested in policing serious abuse of the process.
April 2, 201610 yr Author If both vms are being built on the same hardware ie unRAID server would this still be the case?
April 2, 201610 yr License type | OEM | Retail | Upgrade | MSDN | Vol. License -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transferable | NO | YES | YES | YES | YES between computers | | | | | | | | | | Pre-activated | Sometimes | NO | NO | NO | NO | | | | | Valid for | Sometimes* | YES | YES | YES | YES 64 and 32-bit | | | | | | | | | | Valid for any | Usually | YES | YES | YES | YES language | | | | | | | | | | Permits multiple | NO | NO | NO† | Sometimes | YES installations | | | | | | | | | | Allows copies | NO | NO | NO | Sometimes | Up to 4 in VM | | | | |
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