| From: Michael Hill via talk <talk@gtalug.org> Thanks for this information. | On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 6:47 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: | | > Running Window in a VM would be great but I haven't figured out how to do | > that. Licensing is part of the issue. | About seven years ago I needed to start using it full time, so I | bought a Windows 10 Pro license and an SSD. Yeah. It is a matter of pride/stubbornness that I don't want to buy a second Windows license for the machine. I already involuntarily paid for one. | My understanding is your ThinkPad should store the Windows license key | that came with it in a folder in Linux. I've seen mine but I haven't | tried using it. At one point, licenses were stored (partly) in the firmware. These days, once you've initialized Windows, Microsoft records your "entitlement" in its cloud. If you change enough things, Windows won't consider it the same computer and you have to buy a new license or argue with humans at Microsoft. The VM doesn't look at all like the real machine to Windows. Starting from the fact that the firmware is quite different.