Could you be having issues reaching the MS activation servers? If you install other roles, you can then have 1 VM of Standard.Įither way, the key you have should allow you to activate. Which hypervisor did you use? If you use Windows Standard and install the hyper-v role and NO OTHER roles, you can then have 2 VMs of Standard. The Standard version (OEM, Retail, or VL) does give you 2 OSEs, no question about that. I tried to activate the VM using AVMA, but I get error:ĠxC004FD03 The host machine can't activate the edition of Windows on the virtual machine.ĪVMA only works when the Datacenter version is your hypervisor, so it makes sense that that would fail. I used the product key written on the COA sticker on the case.Ġxc004c008 the activation server determined that the specified product key could not be usedīecause it is already running on the host? So the OEM version doesn't have virtualization rights? I installed Windows Server 2016 standard in hyper-v using the dvd media install that was given to me with the server. 'Standard Edition provides rights for up to 2 Operating System Environments or Windows Servers containers with Hyper-V isolation when all physical cores inthe server are licensed. Hi, i bought a new server and it came with windows server 2016 standard oem.
