Migrate Win7 KMS from Vmware to VirtualBox (activation)

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  1. ritchie

    ritchie MDL Novice

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    #1 ritchie, Feb 19, 2010
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    Migrate Win7 KMS Host from VMware to VirtualBox (activation)

    Well I migrate the well known Vmware image to virtualbox, but I have problems re-activating windows.

    Any help tips?
    Code:
    Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8
    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
    
    
    Name: Windows(R) 7, Enterprise edition
    Description: Windows Operating System - Windows(R) 7, VOLUME_KMS_W7 channel
    Partial Product Key: X48TJ
    License Status: Additional grace period (KMS license expired or hardware out of
    tolerance)
    Time remaining: 43140 minute(s) (29 day(s))
    
    
    Press any key to continue . . .
    Ritchie
     
  2. sebus

    sebus MDL Guru

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    Is your KMS server available on same IP as previously?
    No firewall restrictions?

    If all is OK then the client will pick it up the activation again from KMS server

    sebus
     
  3. ritchie

    ritchie MDL Novice

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    Actually I migrate KMS server, I can't activate the server I have no problem activating the clients from my VMware Image.

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  4. FreeStyler

    FreeStyler MDL Guru

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    That explains it all, does it not? VMWare hardware is significantly different as Virtualbox hardware
     
  5. ritchie

    ritchie MDL Novice

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    I know the reason, I'm searching for a way to activate.
    I tried several loaders but then Virtualbox crashes on boot, making the VM not working.
    Daz's loader saying "Unsupported OS"

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  6. ritchie

    ritchie MDL Novice

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    Nop Virtualbox crashes, same as loaders.


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  7. FreeStyler

    FreeStyler MDL Guru

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    What version are u using... v3.1.4?

    Working fine here... so obviously your craches are not related to loaders and such
    enough memory assigned to the VM?
     
  8. ritchie

    ritchie MDL Novice

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    I'm running v3.1.4 assigned 512MB ram tried with 768MB or 988MB RAM the same.
    My machine
    Pentium 4 @2.8GHz
    2GB RAM
    Windows 7 Enterprise

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  9. sebus

    sebus MDL Guru

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    Give it full 1024 at least

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  10. ritchie

    ritchie MDL Novice

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    I tried with 1200MB RAM same result (Guru meditation).
    I'll try on different machine, but I doubt it will work.

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  11. sebus

    sebus MDL Guru

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    Why are you trying the odd numbers?
    It should really be 1280 if at all

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  12. ritchie

    ritchie MDL Novice

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    I tried 1280MB same thing, I don't think this is a memory issue, more likely something with the controllers of virtualbox.
    I'll try doing a fresh install of Windows 7 on Virtualbox rather than importing the image from .ovf format and try it.

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  13. ritchie

    ritchie MDL Novice

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    OK! Installing a fresh install of windows 7 enterprise, the CD-SLIC-LDR_DELL_QA09_0A2.1.iso boots OK but no luck activating a CSVLK key,.
    I tried some loaders but activate windows as OEM.
    I want to setup a KMS Server on Virtualbox.
    Does anyone know a way to activate CSVLK keys?

    Ritchie