Hello,
from my university I received a "free" copy of Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter. I played around with it, especially with setting up domains and all related Servers (dns, dc, dhcp, etc...) as Virtual Machines. This worked very well, but now each VM needs activation.
Reusing the Same key as for the host-system results in Activation errors.
As recommended here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/cbeeada7-8f9d-4e19-bc83-d021017d0c63/windows-server-2008-r2-enterprise-hyperv-and-4-vms-activation-error?forum=winservergen ,I contacted the Customer Support, but they said: "No Support for VMs".
I read that there should be a second key for activating any VM - however i just received one.
Is there a way to reconstruct the (virtual) key out of the original key for datacenter?
Any other way to activate the VMs without that key? (For 2012 R2 I found the keys required along with AVMA to setup an automatic activation on technet:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn303421.aspx)
best,
dognose