Installing Windows from Ubuntu

[Bill]

On 2023-04-30 05:57, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 10:33 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> Win10 is more usable than just about anything earlier unactivated.
>> Install it on bare metal & on almost any UEFI PC it will self
>> activate using a key in the firmware.
> Even better, you can generally extract the product key from the
> firmware and use it to activate a virtual. Provided you don't use the
> key in more than one place, I would even say that this is a proper use
> of a key you have actually paid for, but IANAL and who knows what
> restrictions Microsoft might have applied.
>
> The method I used a couple of years ago and stuck in my Big List Of
> Handy Hints was this:
>
>     sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
>
> I just checked and it still seems to work on my two-year old Lenovo
> laptop, so I guess it's Windows 10. I get this:
>
>     kauer at kt1:~$ sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
>     [sudo] password for kauer:
>     MSDMU
>     LENOVOCB-01
>     ACPI
>     XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
>
> The Xes are the key (obfuscated here). You are looking for five
> consecutive sets of five characters separated by hyphens. Each set
> contains only decimal digits and upper case letters.
>
> Regards, K.
>
WS=> VERY INTERESTING!  This hack probably doesn't work for a virtual 
machine which is what I now use.  I have a Win 10 machine that is 
unusable because of the power supply.  I probably could get the 
activation code from it using your method, but how could I put it in a 
VM???  Probably it is not possible or not worth the effort.

Best wishes,

Bill Stanley