Using vcenter converter standalone, I created a virtual machine from the powered on physical machine. But when I go into the guest it says "activate windows now" although host is already activated.
Which of these do you think might have triggered re-activation?
1. I have an OEM license of Windows 7 Home Premium
2. I have no page file in the host
3. When creating the clone in vcenter I unselected all partitions but the C: drive
4. After creating the clone, in vmware player settings I changed memory from 15.7GB to 4GB
5. I have received an odd message about defragmentation after I rebooted the guest
The odd thing is, this is the second time I created a clone and I didn't reuse any old files from the old clone but instead saying 30 days to activation it continued where the old clone had left and says 3 days to activation. I don't want to reactivate in the guest because it might break the activation in the host.
Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks
