Installing Windows from Ubuntu

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Mon May 1 03:49:15 UTC 2023


On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 18:06 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> As you know the key will be > 25 chars long, just ask strings to look
> only for ascii strings at least 25 chars long.

If the MSDMU pseudofile is not there, then there is no embedded key.
Ordinary strings will find anything with 4 or more readable characters,
so it'll find the (quite easily recogniseable IMHO) key no problems -
if it's there.

> > I ask because my Win10 VM, which was activated from a corporate
> > license more than ten years ago

That key would not have been embedded.

Regards, K.

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