Hi, Have created virtual VMs of Windows 11 and 10 on my laptop for experimentation and would like them to be oem activated with same credentials that are on my Lenovo Thinkpad X9. So far I have been able to extract the Bios rom and open it up in Uefitool and after searching for 'Slic' found three occurences. Though not sure exactly where I make my edits. Also followed the VMware guide and it has me confused in that its either old and not mention Win 10 11 and instead Server operating system instead. At least I understand how to insert the ready made slic files into the VMware rom that has been provided. Beyond that I need help. Thanks in advance...
@davidm71 Starting with Windows 8, consumer SKUs of Windows don't use OEM:SLP activation anymore. For firmware-based licensing markers, they switched to OEM: DM instead (which in turn deprecated SLIC and brought MSDM in the ACPI namespace), where each PC gets its own unique serial, hence it can't be duplicated. Microsoft later introduced digital entitlement, which can bind machine-wise activation data to your Microsoft account, but there is no easy way to "transplant" it from an existing PC to multiple VMs without jumping through hoops. Just use one of the KMS emulators, or HWID-based activators (albeit we don't exactly endorse the latter here yet).
I guess I could just buy a cheap oem license but wonder how it holds up in a VM where the hardware configuration can change? Anyhow thanks for explaining the details. Spent way too much time on it last night! Lol