Comment on You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2.

• neshura@bookwormstory.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve got an unactivated VM I abuse as a server that’s been running for half a year now, no idea what you are talking about

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  • icedterminal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He’s actually partly correct. VMs of Windows 10 or 11 are supposed to shut down hourly if not activated. It’s been present since Windows 10 released.

    Here’s a reference in case you need one: superuser.com/…/why-does-windows-10-shut-down-hou…

    You either have the registry key unset, or are experiencing a bug of the software protection mechanism.

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  • vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    windows…as a server…?

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    • neshura@bookwormstory.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Space Engineers has no Linux Dedicated Server so I’m forced to run a Windows VM. It’s the only piece of software I’ve encountered that problem with and it boggles my mind why they chose to do that

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      • Johanno@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The same reason I set up a windows vm yesterday.

        Space Engineers. There are dockers for it but since Single Player on Linux is already suffering in Performance I don’t think the server in docker on wine will perform better.

        And I used a Windows Image that I used for personal installs and never had the issue that it shutdown unactivated. Some settings aren’t available though. Nothing usually you need.

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      • vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        ah, i assumed a web server. it’s ok for game servers i guess

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• tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve got an entire set of windows test VMs running unactivated for about 4 years now.

  The worst that happens is you can’t set a desktop background.

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• icedterminal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What you’re describing is for bare metal Windows Server only or all editions in a VM. And that’s on purpose. You can probably guess why. Windows Home through Enterprise will run indefinitely on bare metal. It just locks down personalisation. Microsoft explicitly offers a VHD of Windows that doesn’t require activation.

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• vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  that applies to vm images only

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• dangblingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nope. On all of my machines I installed Windows 10 using an official usb boot disk with a distro straight from Microsoft. It was 100% free, I didn’t need an account, and I’m not being prompted to activate, nor do I have the annoying little watermark in the bottom right of my screen.

  I seriously don’t understand how people are paying to use Windows when Microsoft gives it away for free.

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  • Trollception@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Were those OEM machines? Often times OEM computers will come with a Windows OS license during purchase and I think Windows may check the hardware thumbprint of the machine and license it automatically. Windows 10/11 is certainly not free for people who build their own machine from parts.

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