Window 7 Bootcamp, avoiding Reactivation

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tigerAspect
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Joined: 5. Mar 2010, 15:18
Primary OS: Mac OS X other
VBox Version: VirtualBox+Oracle ExtPack
Guest OSses: Windows 7, Linux Mint

Window 7 Bootcamp, avoiding Reactivation

Post by tigerAspect »

So here's the situation, I have an OEM Windows 7 Ultimate installed and activated via Bootcamp.
I want to run that partition with Virtualbox without Win 7 requiring reactivation.
Here's what I've dome so far:

Created RAW vmdk from the bootcamp partition.
Set MAC address to the same as reported by Apple System Profiler.
Set DMI info, as reported by dmidecode under Linux. Which was a nightmare itself, dmidecode refused to run under os X and there doesn't seem to be any native tools for doing that. :roll: So, I downloaded and booted Linux Mint via DVD, ran dmidecode and emailed myself the results.

Windows runs fine, but despite all that Windows still wants reactivation. :(

Any ideas?
tb2571989
Posts: 145
Joined: 10. Sep 2009, 14:28
Primary OS: MS Windows 7
VBox Version: VirtualBox+Oracle ExtPack
Guest OSses: Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, Ubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu 10.10

Re: Window 7 Bootcamp, avoiding Reactivation

Post by tb2571989 »

As windows has detected a noteable hardware change it will require re-activation. As it is OEM I am not sure how you would o this.
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