VMWare Player - Windows Server not activated anymore
I have a physical Windows 2008R2 server in production that hosts some software that is in need of an upgrade. I wanted to test an upgrade in a virtual environment, so I used VMware Converter to create a virtual machine from the physical machine. I moved the vmx and vmdk files to my workstation and then attached them as a virtual machine using VMware Player 6. I set the virtual machine to be in host-only mode for networking because I obviously didn't want it visible on the network since it was a copy of the physical production server.
The machine booted fine but now it wants to reactivate because of the hardware changes. I cannot activate because it is in host only mode. Am I stuck? That would be unfortunate because all I wanted to do is test on a virtual machine first and then repeat it in production. It isn't like this VM will be used for anything else.
The machine booted fine but now it wants to reactivate because of the hardware changes. I cannot activate because it is in host only mode. Am I stuck? That would be unfortunate because all I wanted to do is test on a virtual machine first and then repeat it in production. It isn't like this VM will be used for anything else.
Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)
Is you Windows license OEM ?
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Unfortunately, on this particular server it is. The rest of mine are open license. Is this reactivation not an issue at all with open license?
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