From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Cannot activate Windows Server 2008 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:24:07 +0300 Message-ID: <48819697.1040409@qumranet.com> References: <200807172014.34515.jmezach@home.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Mezach Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:50889 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751430AbYGSHYI (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:24:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200807172014.34515.jmezach@home.nl> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.