Re: Weird Windows license issue

[Sterling Windmill <sterling@ampx.net>]

What do you mean by "rejected"? Is the installer not taking your key (I doubt this would be caused by anything KVM specific), or is it failing to activate over the internet (it may be that you have just hit the limit for how many times a given key can be activated)?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Jinks" <michael.jinks@gmail.com> 
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org 
Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2009 6:22:58 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Weird Windows license issue 

My group has a license code for multiple instances of Win2K3 r2 
Enterprise, which has worked fine for me when Windows runs as a guest 
on VMware and Xen, but now when I try to use it for my first Windows 
KVM guest, it's being rejected. I wouldn't think that the 
virtualization platform would matter for this purpose but it's the 
only variable I can see between our current working and non-working 
installs. 

Is this a known issue? Like, maybe Windows pays attention to the MAC 
address or CPU info when processing the license key and doesn't like 
some checksum somewhere? I know others are using Win2K3 on KVM so I 
know it should work... 

Thanks, 
--Michael 
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