Now that Windows 10 is officially available, there’s a good chance you’ll be updating your existing PCs to the new OS. There are reasons for and against doing this of course.
If you’re not quite ready to jump aboard Windows 10, you might want to install it in a virtualized environment instead. This way you’ll be able to try it out -- no Windows key required -- without risking your current setup, and see whether you like it or not. It’s certainly worth playing around with.
The process is very simple -- all you need is a copy of Oracle VM VirtualBox and a Windows 10 ISO, which you can get by following the instructions here. There are x86 and x64 editions available in a choice of editions and languages.
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To set up Windows 10 in VirtualBox, launch the software and click New in the Manager window. In the Create Virtual Machine dialog box enter 'Windows 10' as the name of the operating system.
Select Windows 10 as the version. (Choose 'Windows 10 (64bit)' if you have a 64-bit ISO).
Hit Next, then set the Memory Size. The recommended figure should be fine. On the following screen choose to 'Create a virtual hard drive now' and click Create. Accept VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) as the hard drive file type. You’ll be asked if you want the new virtual hard drive to be dynamically altered (it will resize as required) or a fixed size. The latter option is faster, so select that.
Click Create and VirtualBox will begin building the drive.
When done, click the Start button in the Manager. In the 'Select start-up disk' window, click the folder icon and navigate to the Windows 10 ISO.
Click Start and Windows 10 should begin to load. Select your language settings, then click the 'Install now' button. Accept the license terms. Choose the 'Custom: Install Windows only (advanced)' option.
Click Next, and the installation process will begin. You'll be prompted to enter your license key but you can skip this step for now (useful if you don't actually have a Windows 10 key).
When it’s done, choose to 'Get going fast' using the express settings (you can customize things if you prefer). Say who owns your PC (you or an organization), and then sign in with your Microsoft account. You can create an account if you don’t already have one.
You’ll now have the option of creating a PIN to sign in with instead of a password. Microsoft says this is better, and it's unquestionably faster. If you don’t want to sign into your virtual version of Windows 10 every time, you can bypass this afterwards by following these steps.
Next you'll be able to add or skip Cortana, Microsoft's personal assistant. Once that's done, Windows 10 will finalize everything and you can begin exploring. One of the first things you'll probably want to do is resize the display settings in the virtual OS.
If you want to resize the program window, click View in VirtualBox and select Fullscreen or Scaled Mode (which is my preference).
The simplest way to shut down Windows 10 when you no longer need it is to click the X in top right corner of VirtualBox and select 'Power off the machine'.
Troubleshooting
If you’re running Hyper-V (Microsoft’s built in virtualization tool) in Windows 8.x you’ll need to disable it in order to be able to run VirtualBox.
If VirtualBox encounters errors and fails to install Windows 10, the first thing to do is make sure you’re running the very latest version of the virtualization software.
If that doesn’t fix the issue, go to System Properties on the host (not the virtual) PC, click the Advanced tab and click Settings under Performance. Select the Data Execution Prevention tab and change the setting from 'Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only' to 'Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select'.
OK that, restart your system and this time Windows 10 should install just fine in VirtualBox.
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Most guides for installing Windows on VirtualBox to act as a template for quick Windows jobs tell you to take a few steps to prepare the Virtual Machine before installing Windows (the best guide I found: grahamrhay.wordpress.com; another fairly good guide: www.windowstablettv.com). Unfortunately, I didn't read these guides before installing and activating Windows on the VM I wanted to use as a template.
I want to know how to clone my already-active VM in such a way that would not require re-activation from Windows.
Looking in the template VM Definition file (the VBOX or XML file for the VM), the
/VirtualBox/Machine/Hardware (XPath ID) node has no uuid attribute. But, if I try to use VBoxManage modifyvm <uuid|name> --hardwareuuid <uuid> to set a new UUID for the template VM, then the template VM loses its activation status! (Thankfully, I had made a backup of the template.) So, to accomplish my aim, I can't just follow those guides pretending that I haven't installed Windows yet.
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Thankfully, I noticed something about all of my Virtual Machines that I hadn't prepared as those guides had outlined.
I ran
VBoxManage showvminfo <uuid|name> and noticed that the UUID valued matched the Hardware UUID value, leading me to surmise that if any VM Definition didn't have a uuid attribute in the /VirtualBox/Machine/Hardware node, then the VM would use the 'Machine UUID' value as the 'Hardware UUID' value. So, for my template VM, it did have a 'Hardware UUID' that I could use; I just had to find how to transfer it to any clones I would make.
To ensure that the UUID transfers, you can take one of two approaches:
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This powershell script does the work:
Remember that the virtual machines names are case sensitive.
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Thanks to the hints above I have successfully cloned a machine with Win7 guest running on a Kubuntu host for test purposes without re-activation.
My machine was activated already and (as described above) actually had no hardware UUID.
For me it looks like the MACHINE UUID is only for Virtualbox management, whereas the HARDWARE UUID is used by Windows activation logic. If there is no hardware UUID then Virtualbox provides the machine UUID to the guest, i.e. Microsoft knows the machine UUID.
So this is how it worked well without re-activation in my case:1) Copy the virtual machine (folder) with normal file browser.2) Open the .vbox file in a simple text editor.3) As there was no UUID attribute for the 'hardware', copy the machine UUID attribute (e.g. uuid='{xxx11111-2222-3333-4444-xxxxxxxxxxxx}' ) to the 'hardware' entry.4) Generate a new UUID for the machine, e.g. with uuidgenerator.net.5) Overwrite the UUID machine VALUE with the generated UUID value. => Done.
In order to manage both machines in parallel in VB Manager it is more tricky:
1. Rename the clones's harddisk .vdi file. 2. In command line provide a new UUID to the harddisk via command 'VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid .vdi. VBManager will set a new UUID and display it. 3. In VB Manager add the new machine. Edit the machine by adding the new harddisk file (and remove original vdi, if still present).
Now you have unique IDs for all virtual machines and harddisks. You can manage both machine's within the VB Manager in parallel.
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Full clone the machine. Do not start it.
From command line:
VBoxManage modifyvm 'Cloned VM name' --hardwareuuid xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
As UUID use the the machine id (or hardware id if present) from the original machine.
To get the that UUID use:
VBoxManage showvminfo 'Original VM name'
This should work. Tested on Windows 10 guest, already activated.
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