adamf
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I am running 8.1 Pro in a VirtualBox VM on a Mac host. It is a legit copy and activated fine. What I want to do is sometimes boot natively and sometimes run it as a VM. The disk is a partition which I can boot from normally. When I run it through VirtualBox I attach the same partition as a RAW disk. Never is more than one instance running and always it is the same physical hardware so this should be possible right?
Whenever I do this though it sees the hardware has changed (which it hasn't - it is just it sees the real hardware rather than the virtual hardware) and I have to phone them up to reactivate which is getting very tiresome.
How can I preserve the activation (and for office also I suppose) so I don't have to phone them every time I switch from one way of running to another?
Note I'm not looking for ways to crack activation at all - which is all the "solutions" I can seem to find seem to suggest.
Any ideas?
Whenever I do this though it sees the hardware has changed (which it hasn't - it is just it sees the real hardware rather than the virtual hardware) and I have to phone them up to reactivate which is getting very tiresome.
How can I preserve the activation (and for office also I suppose) so I don't have to phone them every time I switch from one way of running to another?
Note I'm not looking for ways to crack activation at all - which is all the "solutions" I can seem to find seem to suggest.
Any ideas?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 10 Pro Prieview x64
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- MacBook Pro Core2Duo
- CPU
- T7600
- Memory
- 3
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI Radeon X1600
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Internal
- Screen Resolution
- 1440 x 800
- Hard Drives
- 40GB
- Keyboard
- Apple
- Mouse
- Apple
- Internet Speed
- Varies
- Browser
- Various
- Antivirus
- Defender