I have a laptop that came with Windows 11 pre-installed that I've setup to dual boot with Arch Linux. I do most of my work in Linux, but I need to run a few Windows apps, which don't work properly with Wine. I created a recovery media from the Windows system and installed it in a VMWare Workstation virtual machine on Linux. Can I activate it with the key from my Windows boot, or does that violate the license? It's technically the same computer, but it's virtualized hardware so I believe Windows would see it as a different machine. Are there a fixed number of activations? Also does activating it in the VM break the real activation in the actual Windows boot partition?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win11 + Arch
- Computer type
- Laptop