Ok and a question that still has not been clearly answered yet so if someone can clearly answer for us. Do we have to do this 25 VM thing every 30 days, or every 180 days? Also, cant we just change a few numbers/letters on the UUID each time we start up the client VM and do it that way? Wont that work since the UUID would be different?
Your first job is gonna be to restart the VM from the snapshot, made after the rearm cmd, 25 times so that the host is ready to activate. After that you only need to restart the VM daily to retain the +25 count.
As i understood, within 30 days that treshold has to be renewed through 25 new machines activating against the host. No need to change uuid, create a vmware win 8 client snapshot, as described some posts before. Then every time you power on that client, after reverting to that snapshot, count on host is raised by 1.
Make a new VM, no install and change UUID. Fresh windows 7 pro with sp1 on that vm. Install KB275817 x64 and reboot. Turn off net, turn off UAC. Install KMS key. Either thru live CD or thru Windows, replace the tokens.dat and pkeyconfig files. Restart and it should be ready to get the 25 activations, if asked if moved or copied select moved it. All we should do is just keep that snapshop client so every 20ish days we run it 25 times and we are good to go, or every 170ish days run it again so we can activate our clients. BTW is this new for windows 8? I never remember the "within 30 days that treshold has to be renewed through 25 new machines activating against the host" thing. If I remember right after the 25 was reached, your good to go. Now that we have a working KMS with activation files, cant a mini KMS be made now?
Yep, you got it. After first boot you enable the build-in Admin account and disable the one you made at install. Don't need a mini KMS, have my own server now , but this would be a matter of time before it's released by someone.
That is also a way to do it, but this would only increas the volume of your folder. By making a snapshot just before login, you also created a snapshot of the used nvRAM.
quick question, if you reach 30 or 40 or 10000 activations on your KMS, will you still have to do this 25 vm activation thing again after 30 days?
I dot have 1TB drive & only one snapshot is required. rerun that again & again.. I think problem is with my English. You just have to snaphot before running script(At logon window).
Shure it does, look in your folder. Originally you have 1GB RAM, now with the snapshot you have 2 x 1GB RAM.
Physically 8 GB installed & to run dummy copy for activation 1GB is enough & snaphot size was around 1.3 GB & can deleted that after & will create that again when required in just 5 min.