So offline activation is for a household with just 1 PC, no net connection. Online is for a household who either uses a switch or router that uses the 192.198.xxx.xxx system or an external IP, yes?
If you activate via the internet it's on-line activation. If you activate without requiring an internet connection it's off-line
Well yah, network activation is how they designed KMS to happen. The retail stuff goes through a ms server. But you cannot simply put your own ip address that the router lists, unless you have some sort of bounceback setting on your router that forwards all the traffic on a certain port back to you. You cannot self-activate if the system knows that it's coming from the same system. However, when the router re-directs it back to you, it's coming from the router, so it fools the activation. I should be clear that it may or may not work for all people. We really don't know. I'm not sure of the ip addresses of large businesses and such, but I imagine that the 192.168.xxx.xxx is only for your immediate localsubnet As long as the activation is not coming from the same PC, the activation would work. If you use the same pc you either need to do a tap/tunmirror, a vm/tap, or a router-forward For all other PC you simply need to run the kms server program or service and have the other ppl point their activation at your system. No extra steps are required to activate other systems.
Off-course it'll , but when you uninstall Kmspico , it'll enable it again or A tutorial Already give in first post , It's better to read the main page first before asking , Most of answer already given there
How about the Vmware based VM, they call it kmslite I think, the encrypted one. I checked it's ip and it gets same network address pool as my 8.1 computer, 192.168.100 client, 192.168.0.101 VM Server. Activates as a VM on a real machine if i charge the KMS hosts first time the vm does windows but not office tho, settings are encrypted too. wish i could do the same as that taiwan based server that activates anything, WS2012 R2, office, 8, 8.1 pro and enteprise, kmspico's a nice solution but I don't like quemu. just plain curiosity, have a nice one
From what I am getting, IP addresses that your router give are ok (192.168.xxx.xxx), its the LOCAL IP's that cant work (127.xxx.xxx.xxx). People correct if I got this wrong?
You got it wrong. It really is not about the actual value of the address. It is simple: KMS client refuses to connect to any IP address assigned to any network adapter of the computer it's running on. None of the loopback addresses work (127.x.x.x), nor will any IP address that is assigned statically, automatically, dynamically, by a router or by DHCP to any network adapter in the computer. If the router gives the address 192.168.0.10 to the computer where the KMS client is running, then it will refuse to contact a KMS server on 192.168.0.10.
I have to say this is wrong as I have my PC set to a static router IP of 192.168.1.2. This PC also has the KMS server running on it. I have activated my PC using the IP of my PC. Proof below: View attachment 25264 BTW I do not have TAPs installed, just normal KMSemulator
Your PC is running Windows 8. The new IP-based restrictions apply to Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 clients.
I should add that using a KMS host running in a VM is an obvious way around the IP-based restriction. Any IP address assigned to an adapter in a VM guest is separate from any IP address assigned to the VM host, regardless of whether you use bridged, NAT-ed, host-only etc. configuration.
It depends on where the KMS server is running. If the KMS server is running inside the same VM, it won't work. If the KMS server is running in a different VM or on the host or elsewhere, it will work.
But once I upgrade to 8.1, I would have to install TAPs before I could activate it again from that same PC like I am doing now, right?
Right. However, since you are working inside a VM anyway, you don't have to run the KMS server on the same computer. You have some other options. You could run the KMS server on the VM host, or in a second VM. Neither of these solutions require a TAP adapter and a Tun Mirror.
So what would happen if I had a VM of Server 2012 thats running a full KMS (the KMSfull from Win 8.0/Server 2012) thats currently pointed twords port 80. Could I also install this KMSemulator thats going for port 1688? (I hope you understand what I mean )