From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gleb Natapov Subject: Re: KVM with OEM license Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:36:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20100307103634.GS16909@redhat.com> References: <3fc00f681003061543u24658425r96121972b00d711e@mail.gmail.com> <20100307063142.GM16909@redhat.com> <4B937F93.2070708@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Phil Borlin , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Tokarev Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:13349 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753727Ab0CGKgk (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Mar 2010 05:36:40 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B937F93.2070708@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- Gleb.