Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:02:12 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slight OT: How to run existing FreeBSD on windows as a VM Message-ID: <20210217110212.bc187330c2bef2626397b73a@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20210217115210.5f0580a4@archlinux> References: <CAGBxaX=-mPArXr3hf=fDk-JdOAtg06QdtZ9aCEZsrA9CJkvu_A@mail.gmail.com> <20210217115210.5f0580a4@archlinux>
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:52:10 +0100 Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> wrote: > is it just a myth that a Windows install can only run on the > hardware of the installed machine? Not entirely - much depends on the license. Windows OEM licenses are generally locked to the mostherboard by some low level hardware ID check, at the other extreme corporate site licenses an be used on anything and as many times as you like but they tend to get revoked once they escape into the outside world. In between are licenses which can be moved to a new machine but you have to ask Microsoft to reactivate it on the new machine. Usually if you buy a machine with Windows on it you get an OEM license. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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