Re: Unable to activate windows 2003 se

Re: Unable to activate windows 2003 se

[duck]

>I post here because I experiment a lot of 
>problem to activate windows 2003 server

I have, similarly, never been able to activate Vista under KVM. After some 
negotiation with the Windows activation backend, I receive an error 
inviting me to call Microsoft to use telephone activation, which is an 
astonishingly lengthy process which doesn't work either.

I have tried using various network cards, and I have even tried giving 
them MAC addresses which seem to fit into the card vendor's allocated
space in case that sort of detail is being checked?

Has anyone actually succeeded to activate Vista (or Windows 2008) licences 
inside KVM?

I have given up trying and am now forced to reinstall Vista (2008) every 
few months, each time my 4x30 days' worth (4x60 for 2008) of unactivated 
operation expires.

(For those in this boat, http://www.vlite.net/ is very handy, but isn't 
for commercial use.)

Re: Unable to activate windows 2003 se

[Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi]

if you do not worry about date inside Windows ... you can use
following option ... I have not used this but i am going to use this
with windows 7 ...

QEMU Manpage

-startdate date
    Set the initial date of the real time clock. Valid format for date
are: "now" or "2006-06-17T16:01:21" or "2006-06-17". The default value
is "now".

__
tharindu



On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:42 PM, duck<duck@roaming.ath.cx> wrote:
>>I post here because I experiment a lot of
>>problem to activate windows 2003 server
>
> I have, similarly, never been able to activate Vista under KVM. After some
> negotiation with the Windows activation backend, I receive an error
> inviting me to call Microsoft to use telephone activation, which is an
> astonishingly lengthy process which doesn't work either.
>
> I have tried using various network cards, and I have even tried giving
> them MAC addresses which seem to fit into the card vendor's allocated
> space in case that sort of detail is being checked?
>
> Has anyone actually succeeded to activate Vista (or Windows 2008) licences
> inside KVM?
>
> I have given up trying and am now forced to reinstall Vista (2008) every
> few months, each time my 4x30 days' worth (4x60 for 2008) of unactivated
> operation expires.
>
> (For those in this boat, http://www.vlite.net/ is very handy, but isn't
> for commercial use.)
>
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>

Re: Unable to activate windows 2003 se

[dgourdon]

Thanks for your anwers !
I've install this server for production use and I need to have the right 
date and time...
I've finaly activate my windows 2003 server by phone and it works perfectly.

Thanks,

Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi a écrit :
> if you do not worry about date inside Windows ... you can use
> following option ... I have not used this but i am going to use this
> with windows 7 ...
>
> QEMU Manpage
>
> -startdate date
>     Set the initial date of the real time clock. Valid format for date
> are: "now" or "2006-06-17T16:01:21" or "2006-06-17". The default value
> is "now".
>
> __
> tharindu
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:42 PM, duck<duck@roaming.ath.cx> wrote:
>   
>>> I post here because I experiment a lot of
>>> problem to activate windows 2003 server
>>>       
>> I have, similarly, never been able to activate Vista under KVM. After some
>> negotiation with the Windows activation backend, I receive an error
>> inviting me to call Microsoft to use telephone activation, which is an
>> astonishingly lengthy process which doesn't work either.
>>
>> I have tried using various network cards, and I have even tried giving
>> them MAC addresses which seem to fit into the card vendor's allocated
>> space in case that sort of detail is being checked?
>>
>> Has anyone actually succeeded to activate Vista (or Windows 2008) licences
>> inside KVM?
>>
>> I have given up trying and am now forced to reinstall Vista (2008) every
>> few months, each time my 4x30 days' worth (4x60 for 2008) of unactivated
>> operation expires.
>>
>> (For those in this boat, http://www.vlite.net/ is very handy, but isn't
>> for commercial use.)
>>
>> --
>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in
>> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
>> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
>>
>>     
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>   

Re: Unable to activate windows 2003 se

[Avi Kivity]

On 08/12/2009 11:12 AM, duck wrote:
>> I post here because I experiment a lot of
>> problem to activate windows 2003 server
>>      
>
> I have, similarly, never been able to activate Vista under KVM. After some
> negotiation with the Windows activation backend, I receive an error
> inviting me to call Microsoft to use telephone activation, which is an
> astonishingly lengthy process which doesn't work either.
>
> I have tried using various network cards, and I have even tried giving
> them MAC addresses which seem to fit into the card vendor's allocated
> space in case that sort of detail is being checked?
>
>    

Maybe it wants some SMBIOS tables with a system serial number, or 
perhaps a disk serial number.

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Unable to activate windows 2003 se

[dgourdon]

Hi all,

I post here because I experiment a lot of problem to activate windows 
2003 server se on kvm guest. I use the latest version of kvm (88). I've 
tested with 2 different emulated nic (realtek 8139 and intel pro 1000) 
and with the intel one, impossible to go to windows update website which 
is not the case with the realtek but I'm still unable to activate 
windows anymore...

Does anyone have already has similar problem ???

Regards,

Unable to activate windows 2003 se

[dgourdon]

Hi all,

I post here because I experiment a lot of problem to activate windows 
2003 server se on kvm guest. I use the latest version of kvm (88). I've 
tested with 2 different emulated nic (realtek 8139 and intel pro 1000) 
and with the intel one, impossible to go to windows update website which 
is not the case with the realtek but I'm unable to activate windows 
anymore...

Does anyone have already has similar problem ???

Regards,