Does the KMS service only count non-virtual machines running Server 2008
towards the initial 5?

I am trying to roll out 08 Std and am running into problems with getting my
count # to go up. I think I have narrowed it down to actual servers vs
virtual machines. I have done 7 upgrades with 3 being actual and that is the
number the KMS Server is showing as its current count: 3. I figured that it
would be 7 by now, but its not. I didn't see it anywhere that says
specifically that the count is only on real servers...

Hello Dan,
That would be correct. Only Physical machines are coounted.
See this section on KMS Activation Thresholds
in the following link
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc303276.aspx
It talks about counting physical and not virtual machines.

Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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| >Does the KMS service only count non-virtual machines running Server 2008
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| >I am trying to roll out 08 Std and am running into problems with getting
my
| >count # to go up. I think I have narrowed it down to actual servers vs
| >virtual machines. I have done 7 upgrades with 3 being actual and that
is the
| >number the KMS Server is showing as its current count: 3. I figured
that it
| >would be 7 by now, but its not. I didn't see it anywhere that says
| >specifically that the count is only on real servers...
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