From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tokarev Subject: Re: KVM with OEM license Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:27:31 +0300 Message-ID: <4B937F93.2070708@msgid.tls.msk.ru> References: <3fc00f681003061543u24658425r96121972b00d711e@mail.gmail.com> <20100307063142.GM16909@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Phil Borlin , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Gleb Natapov Return-path: Received: from isrv.corpit.ru ([81.13.33.159]:50745 "EHLO isrv.corpit.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752216Ab0CGK1d (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Mar 2010 05:27:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100307063142.GM16909@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Gleb Natapov ?????: > On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 04:43:10PM -0700, Phil Borlin wrote: >> I have an HP Server with an OEM copy of Windows Server 2008. When I >> try to install 2008 as a guest in KVM the HP OEM check pops up and >> tells me I am not using supported hardware. It seems the OEM check is >> looking for information in the BIOS of the server, but KVM is >> presenting the installer with a different BIOS. >> >> HP support told me that if I was using VMWare I would add the >> parameter "SMBIOS.reflectHost = "TRUE"" and then it would work. Is >> there a similar solution under KVM? Is there a particular version of >> KVM that I need to be running to get this feature? >> > You can dump SLIC table of your host bios and provide it to guest bios > using -acpitable parameter. But you are trying to violate MS licence > here. Can you please give some more details here? I tried this very same thing (on my laptop, trying to run windows Vista this way - on the same machine it was installed), but wasn't successful - booting linux with various -acpitable options and looking at dmidecode and various acpi things did not reveal the new tables... Thank you! /mjt