Not working on Windows 10 21H1

Wind4 / vlmcsd

KMS Emulator in C (currently runs on Linux including Android, FreeBSD, Solaris, Minix, Mac OS, iOS, Windows with or without Cygwin)

https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/50234

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Closed BlackCatNeo closed 3 years ago

BlackCatNeo commented 3 years ago

The error was "The data is invalid".

rouben commented 3 years ago

Can you post exactly what steps you took and when exactly you got the error? Please include all commands you ran.

BlackCatNeo commented 3 years ago

With a fresh installed Windows 10 21H2 VM, I entered the following commands:

slmgr /ipk XXXX-XXXX-XXXX (used one of the GVLK keys provided for Windows 10 Pro)
slmgr /skms localhost
slmgr /ato

At the last command, the vbs script popup showed "data is invalid" error message

rouben commented 3 years ago

See issue #6. Starting with Windows 8, Microsoft started blocking KMS requests to KMS servers running on the same machine.

There are a couple of workarounds:

Run vlmcsd on a different machine/device on your network. For example, your router.
Install the OpenVPN TAP driver to create a virtual network interface on your Windows 10 PC, give it an address that's unique (e.g. 10.10.10.10), make sure vlmcsd listens on that IP, and try activation against that IP. This is outlined and automated here.

rouben commented 3 years ago

I'm closing the issue. Feel free to reopen if you still have the issue despite the explanation above.