W11 on unsupported hw in a VM

I have an incompatible Dell 7010 (no TPM or SB) running a Rufus installed W11pro (activated).
I want to clean install Linux as Host OS and install VB to create a VM for running a Rufus install of W11pro as a guest OS. Is there any reason this would not work?
Will the guest OS have any issue activating in a VM since it was already activated as a Host OS?

tns1 said:

Will the guest OS have any issue activating in a VM since it was already activated as a Host OS?

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For activation purposes a VM counts as a new machine with its own unique hardware ID. The digital licence for the host machine will not activate a VM. You will probably need to purchase another licence to activate it.

Even my Windows 10 and 11 Hyper-V VMs running on a supported and activated Windows 11 Pro host required their own individual activations.

Just to expand a little bit on Bree's comments, since a VM has its own hardware (virtualized), it will require a separate activation for this reason.

However, you can dual boot (or triple boot, etc.) and that will NOT require a separate activation because the new Windows installation sees that it is installed on the same hardware.

However, you may want to note that once you activate Windows on a VM, you can save that activation state so that if you ever need to reinstall that VM or migrate it to another system, you can restore your activation state.

Makes sense, good to know.

My initial reason for doing this is to move this PC to Linux but still be able to run the newest version of Turbotax.
I already have a dual boot PC, but the VM idea seems like a good solution for an app you only really use once but may need
a reliable way to run again later even on a different OS,HW. I now see there are similar discussions on the TT forum.

I've been tinkering with VMs for years.

I've happily settled on Linux bare metal Machine, next to Bare metal Windows/Hackintosh Machine.
I also downgraded from W11 25H2 to WI10 22H2 so I can more easily disable MS AI filth.