So I've been starting to look into whether there's a way to get a Windows VM to activate based on the OEM key installed on my computer. I've seen something about copying certain ACPI tables and applying them to the VM, which seems to be possible to do in at least VBox and maybe QEMU, but I'm not finding the tables these articles are referring to (MSDM and SLIC, I think it was). Those are just plain missing from my system, apparently? Maybe it's because my computer is a few years newer than these articles?
Anyone have any idea? Someone probably has some idea; it's pretty much down to whether they'll actually see this post :/
So, after doing some reading, it seems that MSDM and SLIC tables are added by the manufacturer to automatically activate Windows. Given that my computer is personally custom-built, I'm guessing this means I'm pretty much boned on this front. bleh.
