If you are sure you are not violating your license you can use the links in this post to convert your physical Windows into a virtual.
From a comment in this thread it appears it is not possible to install Windows using such license. I don't know the issues surrounding a digital license. No valid digital license was found Digital Windows licenses The source of this How-To is an answer on and I have verified the answer - it checks out.
Now that you know you have a product key, you can use the key and apply it to a VirtualBox VM. You can retrieve the key using a terminal command (fake key shown) $ sudo tail -c +56 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM This How-To is the continuation of a post elsewhere in this forum. The guide might work for earlier versions of Windows, yet only confirmed working with Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 and this article will assume Windows 10. This guide assumes you are using a system with an OEM version tied to your hardware. Microsoft has made it a priority to tie the key to the system and therefore it is stored in your systems firmware instead of a sticker which can be copied.
This forum does not endorse piracy - thus this is a guide to do it legally. To continue to use Windows in VirtualBox you need a separate license. When I tried to activate my Windows with the key from the firmware - Windows responded with a message stating Very recently my Windows installation based on my firmware key began acting up. You can learn more on the VirtualBox website.Using the firmware attached license no longer works But it offers some advantages over Hyper-V as well, and it works on Windows 11 Home. VirtualBox isn’t as technically sophisticated as Microsoft’s Hyper-V client, which is an optional feature of Windows 11 Pro and up. Previously, VirtualBox didn’t meet the Windows 11 processor, TPM, or RAM requirements even if the host PC did. And the changelog for this release reveals a few more tidbits.īut the big deal, I think, is that VirtualBox 7.0 finally supports Windows 11 and its new hardware requirements fully. There’s no official announcement yet, but a Beta 1 post from August notes that VirtualBox 7.0 includes full virtual machine (VM) encryption, an updated look and feel, an improved 3D experience for virtual machines that include DirectX 11 or OpenGL support, and a few other new features. Oracle has quietly released VirtualBox 7.0, a major update to its client virtualization solution that adds full support for Windows 11.
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