Annoyingly - if not surprisingly, after installing Windows7 and activating it with a valid product key in a Virtual Machine, running the VM from a USB drive on a computer with a different configuration (CPU) than the originating computer results in a 'major change' prompting Windows to require re-activation.
This was expected, but I would like to know if this will exhaust the number of activations of the product on the company's MSDN subscription and/or if there is a way to deactivate this behavior on the virtual machine (which is passed around as a test/debugging environment).
(I have considered forcing the VM to revert to the previous snapshot after shutting down, somewhat avoiding this issue - but it's somewhat....sub-optimal)
Thanks in advance for any tips/info!