From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Jonathan Mezach <jmezach@home.nl>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cannot activate Windows Server 2008
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:24:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48819697.1040409@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807172014.34515.jmezach@home.nl>
Jonathan Mezach wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I've recently gotten KVM to work on my Slamd64 12.1 machine running
> kernel 2.6.26. Once I got everything up and running I tried installing
> Windows Server 2008. The installation went fine and I can get
> everything up and running and it seems to be working fine. Only
> problem is that I cannot activate it. This problem seems to be caused
> by the Software Licensing service that crashes on startup. Apparently
> this service is needed for activation to work.
>
> I'm not sure if this is actually a KVM problem, but I can't believe
> that Microsoft would ship this if it's not working right, because
> without activation the system is pretty much useless. Also, the crash
> occurs in ntdll.dll, which as far as I know is the kernel, so it does
> seem to be some weird problem with the virtualization. So, I'm
> wondering if anyone has actually tried activating Windows Server 2008.
> The Wiki reports that Windows Server 2008 is supposed to work and
> well, it does, but if I can't activate it, it's useless.
> Of course,
> I'm using a legit version of Server 2008.
>
>
I've just fixed a subtle-but-horrible bug affecting Windows Server
2008. In my tests, Windows would install, boot, and activate fine, but
every once in a while would crash in the kernel during boot. Hopefully
the same bug caused the problem you're seeing as well.
I'll release kvm-72 soon, please try it out.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-19 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-17 18:14 Cannot activate Windows Server 2008 Jonathan Mezach
2008-07-19 7:24 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-07-19 14:58 ` Jonathan Mezach
2008-07-19 15:39 ` Mohammed Gamal
2008-07-21 8:39 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-21 9:09 ` Jonathan Mezach
2008-07-21 14:48 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-21 16:45 ` jmezach
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