From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Phil Borlin <rancidfishbreath@gmail.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KVM with OEM license
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:27:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B937F93.2070708@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100307063142.GM16909@redhat.com>
Gleb Natapov ?????:
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 04:43:10PM -0700, Phil Borlin wrote:
>> I have an HP Server with an OEM copy of Windows Server 2008. When I
>> try to install 2008 as a guest in KVM the HP OEM check pops up and
>> tells me I am not using supported hardware. It seems the OEM check is
>> looking for information in the BIOS of the server, but KVM is
>> presenting the installer with a different BIOS.
>>
>> HP support told me that if I was using VMWare I would add the
>> parameter "SMBIOS.reflectHost = "TRUE"" and then it would work. Is
>> there a similar solution under KVM? Is there a particular version of
>> KVM that I need to be running to get this feature?
>>
> You can dump SLIC table of your host bios and provide it to guest bios
> using -acpitable parameter. But you are trying to violate MS licence
> here.
Can you please give some more details here? I tried this very same
thing (on my laptop, trying to run windows Vista this way - on the
same machine it was installed), but wasn't successful - booting linux
with various -acpitable options and looking at dmidecode and various
acpi things did not reveal the new tables...
Thank you!
/mjt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-07 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-06 23:43 KVM with OEM license Phil Borlin
2010-03-07 6:31 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-03-07 8:47 ` Jernej Simončič
2010-03-07 10:27 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2010-03-07 10:36 ` Gleb Natapov
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