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.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.inEnglish
    8·
    4 hours ago

    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.worldOP
      1·
      4 hours ago

      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

      • breakingcups@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 hours ago

        Be aware that hardware access from a virtual machine(for an audio interface, for example) can be jittery or slow (latency), which might make it unusable for your purposes or not. You’ll have to find out.