Re: Weird Windows license issue

[Yaniv Kaul <ykaul@redhat.com>]

On 7/3/2009 2:02 AM, Michael Jinks wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Sterling Windmill<sterling@ampx.net>  wrote:
>    
>> What do you mean by "rejected"? Is the installer not taking your key (I doubt this would be caused by anything KVM specific),
>>      
> Right, that.  I don't have the screen in front of me so I might be
> getting the exact word wrong, but it immediately throws back something
> to the effect that the key is invalid.
>
> Since the license key entry stage happens before Windows tries to
> bring up networking, I don't think that license exhaustion is a likely
> explanation.
>
> Maybe KVM isn't either (yes, it does strike me as unlikely), but like
> I said in my first post I'm having a hard time finding other
> explanations.
>
> But anyhow.  If license issues like this one aren't known to occur on
> KVM, there must be something else going on, so I'll try again and look
> elsewhere for the cause of the problem.  Thanks for the info.
>    
Any chance you are using OEM licenses?
> Cheers,
> -j
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