#What is virtualbox windows 10 install#
#What is virtualbox windows 10 update#
#What is virtualbox windows 10 windows 8.1#
#What is virtualbox windows 10 license#
#What is virtualbox windows 10 iso#

Now start your virtual Windows machine and when prompted point to your downloaded ISO file presumably stored in your download folder.įollow the installer and when you reach the point where the installer asks for product key - select

#What is virtualbox windows 10 install#

Install Windows 10 in the virtual machine $ VBoxManage setextradata 'win10' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/acpi/0/Config/CustomTable' '/home/$USER/VirtualBox VMs/win10/msdm.bin' Next step is to assign your aquired data to your virtual machine. You can check if it worked by listing the content of msdm.bin file cat '~/VirtualBox VMs/win10/msdm.bin' $ sudo cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM > '/home/$USER/VirtualBox VMs/win10/msdm.bin' The variable $USER used in the command will translate to whatever username you are using on your system. Retrieve your product keyįirst step is to create a copy of firmware table holding the product key and save it in the folder holding your virtual machine. Use VirtualBox to create a virtual machine named win10 - if you chose another name substitute win10 below with the name you have chosen. This is also the place to download earlier versions as Windows 7 and 8.1 and these downloads might require you to input a valid product key to get a download link. You can download a legal copy of Microsoft Windows 10 for your system from If want a clear conscience then remove it. The important keyword is ' simultanously'.Īs it is impossible - on the same hardware - to run a virtual Windows and physical Windows simultanously - it is up to you to remove your physical Windows installation. The requirement is that the key is not used simultanously on several systems. I encourage you to read the above post specifically the part where the author point out that Microsoft actually acknowledge the use in a virtual machine.

#What is virtualbox windows 10 license#

If you are sure you are not violating your license you can use the links in this post to convert your physical Windows into a virtual. From a comment in this thread it appears it is not possible to install Windows using such license. I don't know the issues surrounding a digital license. No valid digital license was found Digital Windows licenses The source of this How-To is an answer on and I have verified the answer - it checks out. Now that you know you have a product key, you can use the key and apply it to a VirtualBox VM.

You can retrieve the key using a terminal command (fake key shown) $ sudo tail -c +56 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM This How-To is the continuation of a post elsewhere in this forum.

#What is virtualbox windows 10 windows 8.1#

The guide might work for earlier versions of Windows, yet only confirmed working with Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 and this article will assume Windows 10.

This guide assumes you are using a system with an OEM version tied to your hardware. Microsoft has made it a priority to tie the key to the system and therefore it is stored in your systems firmware instead of a sticker which can be copied. This forum does not endorse piracy - thus this is a guide to do it legally. To continue to use Windows in VirtualBox you need a separate license. When I tried to activate my Windows with the key from the firmware - Windows responded with a message stating Very recently my Windows installation based on my firmware key began acting up. Open the Hyper-V Manager and start your Virtual Guest created on it.Using the firmware attached license no longer works Test Hyper-V and make sure its machines are also working fine without my error. To see everything is working fine, just click on the start and you will see the running of the virtual machine, may be without any error. This means that your VirtualBox uses the Hypervisor as a virtualization platform to create and run virtual machines of different OS such as Linux, Windows, NAS, etc. Now, on the area corresponding to the select Virtual Machine, you will see:Īcceleration= VT-X/AMD-V, Nested Paging, PAE/NX, Hyper-V Paravirtualization. However, by default VirtualBox will access Hyper-V API, if not then setting the paravirtualization interface will do that.

Click the dropbox given in from of Paravirtualizatiopn Interface and select the Hyper-V.

Click on the Settings option given in the Menu.

For example, here I have Ubuntu 20.04 VM server edition, thus will select that.

What we have to do is, run the VirtualBox on your system, select the created Machine that you want to run. To make VirtualBox compatible with Hyper-V on Windows 10, this step is very important.

#What is virtualbox windows 10 update#

Also, those running older version they should update their VBox software to the latest version. Download Oracle VirtualBoxĪlthough you might already have open-source Oracle VirtualBox on your Windows 10 system if you don’t then go to the official website and download the one. One all the above services installed on your computer restart it to make the update into effect.