If i install Windows 7 on a virtual machine, will it be possible to activate it with a key? If yes, where will the activation key be stored? On physical computers, the activation key will be stored in the motherboard. But what about virtual machines? Virtual machines use virtual components, CPUs, storage devices, motherboards, etc..., are virtual, meaning they are not physical and don't exist, which also means a virtual motherboard doesn't have the physical chip where the BIOS and the key are stored.
How can a key be stored in the motherboard, if the motherboard doesn't exist?
Let's say somehow activation will be successful.
If i change the specification of the virtual machine, will the activation remain?
If i move the virtual computer from the physical computer where the OS installed in the virtual machine was originally activated, will the activation remain?
If i have a physical computer with physical components, install Windows 7 and activate it, but then turn it into .ISO and put it in a virtual machine on another computer, will the activation remain?
Those questions may seem stupid, i'm sorry. I just don't know how VM works, but i want to learn. I would like to use it.