1. Open PowerShell (Not CMD). To do that, right-click on the Windows start menu and select PowerShell or Terminal.
2. 2. Copy and paste the code below and press enter

irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex

3. You will see the activation options. Choose [1] HWID for Windows activation. Choose [2] Ohook for Office activation.
4. That's all

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Side note, what VM software do you recommend? VirtualBox seems popular, but would like some advice.

No idea, I get very bad performances

I would avoid VirtualBox because it’s from Oracle, but that’s me. KVM is close to the metal (it’s in the name: Kernel-based Virtual Machine). Takes a bit more setup (depending on your familiarity with things). I’d go there.

You can simply use the same key to activate your VM. You can get your license key by typing this to command line

wmic path softwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey

Retail keys are meant to be transferable across multiple computers, and even OEM keys are bound to the computer's motherboard. However if there's any problem with activating the VM feel free to use the irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex trick, as even software audits done to corporations just take the billed license count and the PC count that uses Windows as a reference, and don't really care about how you activated Windows.

If you need GPU Passthrough, use VMWare or QEMU. If you don't, any virtualisation software should do the trick.

use virt manager if you don't want to mess around with settings; bare qemu-system-* if you have a bunch of patience

if your windows is an oem license that came with the laptop; then it's tied to the hardware and they probably won't let you re-use it for your vm; but i remember seeing some claims online that they've figure out ways around it.

Use virt-manager (with KVM). Learn how to install guest tools, then enjoy the performance!

Activate it as shown in the comments!

Just use this and yes, your key should work. I use one of my W10 pro keys on a VM I host on my homelab proxmox.

There are ways to do it, buy per the EULA all are not allowed.

You should still do it. But be aware that you aren't supposed to.

You can keep your existing partition, and just mount the disk in a libvirt/qemu on kvm setup. Here is a good place to start

Presonus apparently has a Linux version of Studio One

https://support.presonus.com/hc/en-us/articles/19214558269581-Linux-Getting-Started

One more thing. I needed to enable SVM Mode for virtualization for my AMD CPU, but now my system won't POST. Any ideas?

VMware offers their Workstation hypervisor for free now. I'm able to run Windows 10 surprisingly well using that, and use relatively intensive software like Affinity Designer without any noticeable issues.

https://github.com/kkkgo/KMS_VL_ALL

You're welcome 🤗

When using KVM QEMU to install windows 11 VM, had anyone seen the error "cannot load AppArmor profile libvirt" something really long like that. No idea what AppArmor is, but it won't let me install