How to activate 2016 Standard guest VMs on a 2016 Standard (not Datacenter) server

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I understand that AVMA activation only works with a Datacenter edition host machine. However, the Standard edition is supposed to allow 2 VM installs of Standard as well, but how should those VMs be activated without AVMA?

Best Answer

Just use same product key, what was used for physical server. I just did activation for two VM (Server 2019), running on Server 2019 Standard. Just enter yours OEM product key (from label) in VM (change product key, activate) and it should work.

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