Hi all,
We’re in the process of setting up the machines needed to generate HLK rest results for driver signing submissions.
For the life of me, I can’t find any information about licensing of the Windows installs that we need. For example, suppose we want to start off testing on and certifying for Windows 10 22H2 x86 & x64 + Windows 11 22H2 x64. From what I can tell, we’re going to need:
2 Windows Server installs for 2 x HLK/VHLK Controller (physical machines or VMs), since different HLK versions can’t be installed side by side (I think?)
3 Windows client installs for 3 x HLK Client (physical machines - we’re testing PCIe drivers)
My question is:
Can MSDN licenses for used for the Windows installations for HLK Controllers and/or HLK Clients?
It seems reasonable to use MSDN licenses for HLK Client machines, but I’m not so sure about HLK Controllers. I’ve scoured Bing and Google for information on this and I haven’t been able to find anything. I’ve looked in various license agreements relating to MSDN and Visual Studio Subscriptions and I see nothing in those about HLK.
Either I’m being excessively cautious and people just use MSDN licenses for both Controllers and Clients without thinking about it too deeply, or I’m bad at Googling, or nobody talks about it.
We have a reseller (Grey Matter in the UK) from whom we buy various Microsoft licenses, and they seem to think we’d be alright with MSDN licenses, but I’d like to get a second opinion. Can somebody who has a working HLK hardware setup explain how they licensed the various Windows installs?
Thanks in advance for any pointers.
Tomas