From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Unable to activate windows 2003 se Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:58:25 +0300 Message-ID: <4A82CA81.3080500@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: duck Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:54505 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751737AbZHLN63 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:58:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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