Would you be so kind to share the uuid.bios and ethernet0.generatedAddress from VMX of that VM, please ???
Oh, hello brother of troll. ^ I am of course joking. But at the time I had cause to stand by my initial impression. On the internet, it would seem regrettably common for some random individual to make some wild, unsupported claim, which they, themselves seem unwilling to support or offer any evidence to the contrary and under the lone guidance of "trust me". Usually the mentality of such a thing is for attention and personal laughs. On a site such as MDL, coming out of no where claiming you alone know how to obtain to a free valid copy of a Windows Edition that is yet to be released is not something that is going to be unnoticed and is a good way to draw a lot of attention. ambidav at the time came here making what appeared to be a wild claim that an older preview release, which had been long past discontinued, and most people would not have access to, could be used to give you a valid digital license, today. The few members who are well known and respected here, who did happen to have older backups of this old version, could not validate his claim, and it would appear originally whenever ambidav was given the opportunity to share more details and resources to support his claim, which at the time was being disproved by respectable members here, we were falling back on that "trust me" mentality. Things have sense changed and obviously, ambidav has been vindicated after finally sharing something which could be used to support his claim on a virtual machine.
Spoiler: QUOTE @ambidav is not the only MDL member to have success activating ProWS with a digital license. @RobrPatty not only activated ProWS with a digital license using the method, but formatted, and reinstalled, and kept his digital license.
At the time (past tense, meaning at that particular moment), RobrPatty was the only person making a supporting claim. Which easily was dismissed as a friendly person standing up for his buddy or attempting to diffuse the situation with a sign of support. -- Not uncommon in such instances. Things have sense changed obviously and ambidav has been vindicated
And sadly all won't work anymore on new VM's or hardware on which Pro-Work wasn't previously succesfully activated by the old Pro HWID. The vmx info will keep working but that's a "VM only" solution.