[Myatu]

That's a bad habit you've got. No pun intended.

[theatheist]

The above service can now be found at winstaller.org

[everwicked]

Anyone interested in installing Windows, please take a look here: http://forums.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?p=23229

[AdamD]

Yea, they both matched the address on record and on the payment screen.

[Myatu]

The cards have to have a UK address (and match your billing address w/ OVH). Just in case...

[AdamD]

No, I'm using a student license for development/testing projects

But I've pretty much given up on using an OVH server

I've tried to purchase a windows web license and it's failed on two of my cards, says Declined, even though both cards work fine.

Uploading the recovery program and windows image just stopped working and then I had to reboot the server to get vkvm working again. (Third time this has happened)

I'm really not getting anywhere with OVH's service, I waited 2 weeks for the first server, with no ETA's on when it'd be setup, I finally got a server running after cancelling and choosing another type of harddrive

OVH won't install windows for me using my own license, which is odd, as most hosts I've used in the past, heck, ALL hosts in the past are willing to do that apon confirmation of license validity and they say they won't support me if I do manage to install windows

Just going around in circles.
Gonna try one last idea.

[derchris]

But if I remember correctly you are using a MSDNAA license.
This wouldn't be a valid license, and against the License Agreement.

[AdamD]

The one way I can think of..

1. Pay for the first month on windows.
2. Create an image of the server
3. Transfer the image to another server
4. Reinstall using OVH manager to use linux (cancelling your windows)
5. Transfer the image back to the server
6. Restore the image
7. Boot back to windows and change the product key to your own.

It very much depends on step 4.. the rest I am 99% confident of success with.

Trying something similiar right now, however, uploading 2.3gb of a restore program+image is proving ...tedious at best
3 hours estimated time till the upload finishes

[AdamD]

Aye I tried the VM system, but I couldn't get the networking part to work properly (The whole host only/nat issue)

The OVH instructions on it weren't all to clear, mind you, I'm probably just TO much of a novice to understand.

[freshwire]

The one way I can think of..

1. Pay for the first month on windows.
2. Create an image of the server
3. Transfer the image to another server
4. Reinstall using OVH manager to use linux (cancelling your windows)
5. Transfer the image back to the server
6. Restore the image
7. Boot back to windows and change the product key to your own.

It very much depends on step 4.. the rest I am 99% confident of success with.

[Myatu]

The one thing I can think of is just to use a bare-minimum OS and a virtualisation layer (take your pick: XEN, VMWare, Proxmox, QEMU) and install Windows inside the VM. If it's the only VM running Windows, then performance degradation is minimal. But it does require you have an ISO (disk image) of the Windows OS installer available.

[AdamD]

Meh, I have a license already, I want to use windows, but I can't as OVH won't install it, nor do they accept owned licenses for Windows on their control panel area

From what I've read (...and experienced) the vkvm system doesn't work with windows

There must be SOME way to install Windows server? Does anyone have any ideas?