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He's actually partly correct. VMs of Windows 10 or 11 are supposed to shut down hourly if not activated. It's been present since Windows 10 released.
Here's a reference in case you need one: https://superuser.com/questions/933754/why-does-windows-10-shut-down-hourly-with-initiated-power-off-on-behalf-of-nt-a
You either have the registry key unset, or are experiencing a bug of the software protection mechanism.
windows...as a server...?
The same reason I set up a windows vm yesterday.
Space Engineers. There are dockers for it but since Single Player on Linux is already suffering in Performance I don't think the server in docker on wine will perform better.
And I used a Windows Image that I used for personal installs and never had the issue that it shutdown unactivated. Some settings aren't available though. Nothing usually you need.
ah, i assumed a web server. it's ok for game servers i guess
I've got an entire set of windows test VMs running unactivated for about 4 years now. We have a few at work too (we actually have keys for those but nobody has bothered putting them in).
The worst that happens is you can't set a desktop background.
What you're describing is for bare metal Windows Server only or all editions in a VM. And that's on purpose. You can probably guess why. Windows Home through Enterprise will run indefinitely on bare metal. It just locks down personalisation. Microsoft explicitly offers a VHD of Windows that doesn't require activation.
that applies to vm images only
Nope. On all of my machines I installed Windows 10 using an official usb boot disk with a distro straight from Microsoft. It was 100% free, I didn't need an account, and I'm not being prompted to activate, nor do I have the annoying little watermark in the bottom right of my screen.
I seriously don't understand how people are paying to use Windows when Microsoft gives it away for free.
Were those OEM machines? Often times OEM computers will come with a Windows OS license during purchase and I think Windows may check the hardware thumbprint of the machine and license it automatically. Windows 10/11 is certainly not free for people who build their own machine from parts.