From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "dgourdon@itool.com" Subject: Re: Unable to activate windows 2003 se Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:54:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4A82C992.1060506@itool.com> References: <7778c60e0908120634j73e87974t37a752e65fc3a797@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mailhost5.ebp.com ([81.252.131.15]:60312 "EHLO mailhost-lvs-2.ebp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751141AbZHLNy0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:54:26 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost-lvs-2.ebp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E19FC5BB5B for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:54:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mailhost-lvs-2.ebp.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailhost-lvs-2.ebp.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zhLOyUaz6Wro for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:54:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mx.itool.local (unknown [10.0.10.8]) by mailhost-lvs-2.ebp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A245BB56 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:54:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.0.10.251] (pc-admin.itool.local [10.0.10.251]) by mx.itool.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9D5100F2 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:54:26 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <7778c60e0908120634j73e87974t37a752e65fc3a797@mail.gmail.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Thanks for your anwers ! I've install this server for production use and I need to have the righ= t=20 date and time... I've finaly activate my windows 2003 server by phone and it works perfe= ctly. Thanks, Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi a =E9crit : > if you do not worry about date inside Windows ... you can use > following option ... I have not used this but i am going to use this > with windows 7 ... > > QEMU Manpage > > -startdate date > Set the initial date of the real time clock. Valid format for dat= e > are: "now" or "2006-06-17T16:01:21" or "2006-06-17". The default valu= e > is "now". > > __ > tharindu > > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:42 PM, duck wrote: > =20 >>> I post here because I experiment a lot of >>> problem to activate windows 2003 server >>> =20 >> I have, similarly, never been able to activate Vista under KVM. Afte= r some >> negotiation with the Windows activation backend, I receive an error >> inviting me to call Microsoft to use telephone activation, which is = an >> astonishingly lengthy process which doesn't work either. >> >> I have tried using various network cards, and I have even tried givi= ng >> them MAC addresses which seem to fit into the card vendor's allocate= d >> space in case that sort of detail is being checked? >> >> Has anyone actually succeeded to activate Vista (or Windows 2008) li= cences >> inside KVM? >> >> I have given up trying and am now forced to reinstall Vista (2008) e= very >> few months, each time my 4x30 days' worth (4x60 for 2008) of unactiv= ated >> operation expires. >> >> (For those in this boat, http://www.vlite.net/ is very handy, but is= n't >> for commercial use.) >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> =20 > -- > 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 > =20