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Is it possible to move my Windows 10 upgrade to another system?

I signed up for the Microsoft windows 10 insider program from my Windows 7 environment. Consequently, Microsoft wants to upgrade Windows 7. However, my Windows 7 environment is my production environment and I don't want to upgrade it. I do have a licensed version of Windows 8.1 running in a virtual machine. I would prefer updating it instead. Is there a way I can "move" the upgrade from my Windows 7 system to the Windows 8 system?
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If your computer is part of the domain then the Windows 10 upgrade/updates are not downloaded automatically.  There was some discussion on this here in EE.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28704300/Windows-10-Update-Domain-WSUS.html?anchorAnswerId=40923239#a40923239
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...so it just depends on whether your 8.1 VM install is eligible for upgrade (not an Enterprise/VL), then mount the upgrade .iso and run Setup from witihn 8.1
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Ultimately I used the media creation tool as suggested by the response from Garycase. It worked like a charm!