From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: duck <duck@roaming.ath.cx>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unable to activate windows 2003 se
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:58:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A82CA81.3080500@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0908121759580.3417@q66.ta.eth>
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.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-12 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-12 8:12 Unable to activate windows 2003 se duck
2009-08-12 13:34 ` Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi
2009-08-12 13:54 ` dgourdon
2009-08-12 13:58 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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2009-08-11 8:09 dgourdon
2009-08-10 16:41 dgourdon
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