Running JT Games on a Virtual Machine via VirtualBox?

[WargameGeneral]

I installed a Windows 10 VM with 4 GB memory assigned and was able to install my JTS games via a shared folder on the host machine without problems.

As long as you are not starting to multitask on the guest machine, the games run fine, but I guess that will depend on the hardware of the host.

My laptop shipped with a Windows 10 license, which they now hard-code into the BIOS of the device. Although you can read the serial key out from command line in Linux, you are not able to use it to register your Windows 10 VM. It looks like Microsoft restricts OEM licenses to be used only with the originally purchased hardware, which is a bit annoying.

Not sure what the limitations are if the OS is not activated and if you can simply snapshot your VM after installation and later roll back if required.