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that is because of the detected hardware change
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that is because of the detected hardware change

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It's the same computer. &nbsp;We just copied the virtual drive (the .vhdx file about 80gb) to another folder within the same computer in order run other tests, we did not copied over to another computer or hardware.
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It's the same computer.  We just copied the virtual drive (the .vhdx file about 80gb) to another folder within the same computer in order run other tests, we did not copied over to another computer or hardware.

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Sorry for the delay; been sick.<br />
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Ok, will proceed enter the activation key to the copied vhdx.
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Sorry for the delay; been sick.

Ok, will proceed enter the activation key to the copied vhdx.

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Worked!!!<br />
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(should have done that right after &nbsp;copying the windows 8 vhdx file)
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Worked!!!

(should have done that right after  copying the windows 8 vhdx file)

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We have Windows 8 Pro and various Virtual Computers (Hyper-V). &nbsp;We have one VPC running Windows 7 Pro with no problem. &nbsp;We needed to create the environment of that VPC to run other testing and not touch what it has so far. &nbsp;So we was copy the &quot;.vhdx&quot; file to another location and started running. &nbsp;It worked fine upto today when it started saying about things about enter windows license and/or window piracy.<br />
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How can we use the copy we did of a VPC without the alerts?<br />
Why is it asking for a license when it's in the same computer?
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We have Windows 8 Pro and various Virtual Computers (Hyper-V).  We have one VPC running Windows 7 Pro with no problem.  We needed to create the environment of that VPC to run other testing and not touch what it has so far.  So we was copy the ".vhdx" file to another location and started running.  It worked fine upto today when it started saying about things about enter windows license and/or window piracy.

How can we use the copy we did of a VPC without the alerts?
Why is it asking for a license when it's in the same computer?

Windows licence alert when running a copying a our VPC

Windows 8 is a personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems, with an emphasis on improving its user experience on tablets. In particular, these changes included a touch-optimized Windows shell based on Microsoft's "Metro" design language, the Start screen, a new platform for developing apps with an emphasis on touchscreen input, integration with online services, support for USB 3.0, Advanced Format hard drives, near field communications, and cloud computing. Additional security features were introduced, such as built-in antivirus software, integration with Microsoft SmartScreen phishing filtering service and support for UEFI Secure Boot on supported devices with UEFI firmware.

Windows 8

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.