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My first attempt to create a Windows 7 virtual machine inside an Oracle Linux 7.3 host failed when the Windows installation hung. I suspect it is because I am using OEM Windows installation/recovery disks customized for my (Lenovo T40s) laptop. I tried downloading a 'generic' Windows 7 installation image from Microsoft dot com, but the product ID retrieved from my Registry by Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder didn't work.
Got advice?

JamesBond007 wrote:a Windows 7 virtual machine inside an Oracle Linux 7.3 host

and in another thread:

JamesBond007 wrote:an Oracle Linux virtual machine guest inside a Windows 7 host

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But in any event, OEM disks are tailored to the specific hardware that came with the disk (or vice versa). That hardware is not the same as the hardware of a VM, that's why the failure. I have no clue what the Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is. Care to fill us in? Or at least describe what your end goal is?

Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a tool that recovers your product keys from the Windows registry when you have lost your discs, boxes and/or labels. I was hoping to use the keys found by that tool to be able to download a generic Windows 7 installation image from microsoft dot com, but that failed.
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OEM disks are tailored to the specific hardware that came with the disk (or vice versa). That hardware is not the same as the hardware of a VM, that's why the failure.

confirms what I suspected about the OEM disks, which brings me back to square one.
My end goal is to successfully install a Windows 7 virtual machine guest inside an Oracle Linux host. Even though I have a licence to Windows 7, I don't have the media to do this.

Yes, in another post I described a challenge I am having with the inverse configuration: Linux guest VM inside Windows 7 host. I am experimenting with VirtualBox in different configurations using different hard drives on the same machine.

Thanks and Cheers