From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yaniv Kaul Subject: Re: Weird Windows license issue Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:45:32 +0300 Message-ID: <4A4DA90C.4090909@redhat.com> References: <1480789170.1281246574715523.JavaMail.root@mail.ampx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sterling Windmill , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Jinks Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:60044 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752314AbZGCGpk (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:45:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 7/3/2009 2:02 AM, Michael Jinks wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Sterling Windmill 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >