Just a little tip for those that might be wondering: I was testing Win10 v1703 (legally activated) on the test rig2 & tried exporting it, copying & importing it to another rig w/ a different MB & CPU. It imported fine & is activated w/ a digital key as was on previous rig. The updates installed (15063.540) & all is good on that VM, the exported from VM on other rig is still activated also. I haven't tried this w/ Hyper-V yet as test rig2 CPU doesn't have 'SLAT' included (old CPU), test rig1 does though but probably wont test it anyway since one cannot have Hyper-V & VMware installed on the same partition/OS. HTH anyone wondering
That sure fizzled; I found out after a few days that the OS was not activated anymore w/ the “Activate Windows” watermark in the desktop lower right corner. Time to go to plan B, guess time will tell. Edit: plan B - Calling in the MS activation # robot > Tech person in India failed as I decided to just go to plan C plan C - Using my old Win7 Ultimate TechNet key activated it. *Oh well so much for my first impression that a exported copy in VMware of Win10 would be activated more than a few minutes/hours. That's what testing is all about I suppose. No to move on & update to another Win10 SKU
What should work is shrinking the current windows partition in the VM and install win 7 SP1 Home or Pro (depends for what 10 edition you want a HWID for) and activate it by DAZ WLoader and generate a genuineticket.xml (or upgrade it to 10) and use the ticket on the 10 install.