I have seen other SuperUser questions on this topic: How to find Windows 8 product key? | How to find Windows 8 OEM product key? However, all of the answers assume you have Windows 8 running.
I've already done a clean install of Ubuntu 13.04 on my new laptop, and I'm trying to set up a VM environment for those occasional programs that just absolutely refuse to run even with Wine.
I saw this image on another answer:
So it appears that the key should somehow be available via ACPI. However,
I've tried ls /proc/acpi
and that turns up nothing useful as far as I can see, and acpitool
isn't helping me at all.
How the heck can I get the product key out?
EDIT: I have tried running RW-Everything via Wine (the pictured program), but it is unable to 'install its driver'. So no dice there.