If i remember correctly ms will license your new windows if it detect no more than 3 new hardware components. But you could buy an ESD license for few dollars / euros.
Il dom 27 nov 2022, 18:45 Chavdar Ivanov <ci4...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > > On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 at 15:51, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > >> I have ordered a new laptop and hoping to run NetBSD as primary OS on it >> if things go fine. (See my other post on chipset, graphics processor etc.) >> >> This laptop comes with pre-installed Windows. I do not need and do not use >> Windows. But since I am being given one, can I just keep the option to use >> it open e.g. as a qemu guest on NetBSD (or Linux for that matter). Is >> there something I need to do before I wipe out the pre-installed Windows? > > > There is a chance that you might. I used to have an HP laptop- it sadly > died a few months ago- which had initially some version of Windows- I > believe, 7, at the time, then upgraded to 10- used for a while, including > perhaps when I was logged with my Microsoft account. The last years of its > life this laptop spent as my netbsd-current development server, Aldo > running some nvmm guests. One of those was a windows 10 vm, installed from > scratch. At one time I was surprised to discover that it was automatically > registered and the license was valid, apparently inherited from the > physical host, after all the MAC address received by Microsoft was the > same, as well as the cpu type. > > So if you make sure you go through the windows setup and link it’s license > to a Microsoft account, after you install netbsd and configure a nvmm > windows instance, it should be licensed. > > I still would suggest installing a windows backup program like macrium > reflect and storing an image backup of the original system though. > > Chavdar > > >> >> -- >> Mayuresh >> > -- > ---- >
