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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. (www.neowin.net)
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[–] mystik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can extract the SLIC value from the ACPI table, and then pass it through to QEMU

See more details here: https://gist.github.com/Informatic/49bd034d43e054bd1d8d4fec38c305ec

It is my understanding that this can only be used to run the OEM license one one instance in a VM, on the specific hardware that is originally licensed. IE, you virtualize the license if the bootOS is Linux, but you can't run 2 instances of the same windows license inside each other.