From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Feb 17 11:02:22 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD9253C012 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:02:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4cd0004009a91.3dbbbcc997ac1a7dfd5433305a7558c2@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DgZg14MMxz57FB for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:02:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4cd0004009a91.3dbbbcc997ac1a7dfd5433305a7558c2@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1613559742; x=1616151742; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=IlZQA+uDwbFicAmcMTQAR+lwB2bTzQfWu2DiCCeWxVM=; b=Gdpw1QViT6uHZnBjLGTrpVbkydlDYyVOYxmOW9zhVviG/iklPCNiTc/2d8o3GzQfmfHbB++2rxf0gwWKTSc5WhZeXFgpc/0dLr27ZV30TbEf3YLZTclcSZlOYjLcHC1AUWLg2mjrpe/a5f+ySRyntlQjvch3joVQ1OZuSrvL51I= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xZDRjZDAwMDQwMDlhOTEuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r3.us-east-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r3.us-east-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.189.3]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Wed, 17 Feb 2021 06:02:14 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r3.us-east-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Wed, 17 Feb 2021 06:02:14 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.94 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1lCKay-000B2F-Fo for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:02:12 +0000 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:02:12 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slight OT: How to run existing FreeBSD on windows as a VM Message-Id: <20210217110212.bc187330c2bef2626397b73a@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20210217115210.5f0580a4@archlinux> References: <20210217115210.5f0580a4@archlinux> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4DgZg14MMxz57FB X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=Gdpw1QVi; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.82.1d4cd0004009a91.3dbbbcc997ac1a7dfd5433305a7558c2@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.82.1d4cd0004009a91.3dbbbcc997ac1a7dfd5433305a7558c2@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.70 / 15.00]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[142.0.176.198:from]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[142.0.176.198:from:127.0.2.255]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4cd0004009a91.3dbbbcc997ac1a7dfd5433305a7558c2@email-od.com]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4cd0004009a91.3dbbbcc997ac1a7dfd5433305a7558c2@email-od.com]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:02:22 -0000 On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:52:10 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > is it just a myth that a Windows install can only run on the > hardware of the installed machine? Not entirely - much depends on the license. Windows OEM licenses are generally locked to the mostherboard by some low level hardware ID check, at the other extreme corporate site licenses an be used on anything and as many times as you like but they tend to get revoked once they escape into the outside world. In between are licenses which can be moved to a new machine but you have to ask Microsoft to reactivate it on the new machine. Usually if you buy a machine with Windows on it you get an OEM license. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith