Re: KVM with OEM license

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 01:27:31PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 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...
> 
What details beyond what qemu -h gives you do you need? I haven't
checked this feature for a long time now, may be something is broken.

Just did:
$ echo hello > /tmp/a
$ qemu ... -acpitable data=/tmp/a

and I can see new table in acpidump & dmesg

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			Gleb.