[HELP] W11 Activation prompt after migrating from bare metal to VM

djbe

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I have "successfully" migrated W11 Pro from an activated physical install (Minisforum BD790i) to a Proxmox VM (.i.e. BD790i / W11 bare metal >> BD790i / PVE bare metal / W11 VM)

"Succesfully", because although passthrough of the GPU, TPM, and NVME boot SSD (as emulated nvme raw image added in vmid.conf) works to the extent that I now boot my previous physical install as a VM, I now have the "activate windows" prompt

I'm not able to screenshot my configs, but I will describe what I've done in the first reply

Any ideas what else I need to passthrough / configure for windows to be able to "match" my hardware with its existing activation?

Thanks in Advance

Dave
 
System: enabled SR-IOV / VT-d / IOMMU

PVE: (added vfio etc, blacklisted amdgpu) kernel modules / added vfio + iommu kernel options / ensured separate iommu groups

GUI (Hardware): OVMF / q35 / PCIe raw device GPU passthough (00:03.0x) / Display =spice (to enable console)

GUI (Options): UUID / Manufacturer / Series / Family (from dmidecode)

100.conf args:

-cpu
-drive file=/rpool/data/nvme.img,if=none,id=NVME1 -device nvme,drive=NVME1,serial=nvme-1,bootindex=1
-tpmdev passthrough,id=tpm0,path=/dev/tpm0,cancel-path=/path/to/file/ -device tpm-tis,tpmdev=tpm0
 

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