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Dennis Freeland
Good afternoon, all!
I work at a major university and we have a strange IT issue. I'm trying to get this done without breaking any user agreements / etc., and doing everything legally.
Here's the situation... in one of our labs, we have a piece of analysis equipment that only works on Windows XP. For years, they were using a Windows 7 Machine running Windows XP Mode. That machine died and we were able to pull the hard drive, and create a VM in Hyper-V to use on another machine running Windows 10. Unfortunately, we cannot see the lab equipment on a VM within a VM for some reason (we've tried many things).
So, it seems like the only choice here is for us to attempt to migrate the existing Windows XP VM from Windows 7 to the host machine, a Windows 10 machine. It came up, but Windows XP shows as not being activated. We tried to activate by phone, and I purchased / tried to use another activation key, but that didn't work either (to be fair, that could be a version mismatch).
Any advice?
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I work at a major university and we have a strange IT issue. I'm trying to get this done without breaking any user agreements / etc., and doing everything legally.
Here's the situation... in one of our labs, we have a piece of analysis equipment that only works on Windows XP. For years, they were using a Windows 7 Machine running Windows XP Mode. That machine died and we were able to pull the hard drive, and create a VM in Hyper-V to use on another machine running Windows 10. Unfortunately, we cannot see the lab equipment on a VM within a VM for some reason (we've tried many things).
So, it seems like the only choice here is for us to attempt to migrate the existing Windows XP VM from Windows 7 to the host machine, a Windows 10 machine. It came up, but Windows XP shows as not being activated. We tried to activate by phone, and I purchased / tried to use another activation key, but that didn't work either (to be fair, that could be a version mismatch).
Any advice?
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