From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Duffy Subject: Re: Weird Windows license issue Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:14:34 -0500 Message-ID: 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 To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:41976 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752340AbZGCCOd (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:14:33 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MMYIM-0005RT-RQ for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:14:34 +0000 Received: from 143.166.197.6 ([143.166.197.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:14:34 +0000 Received: from Charles_Duffy by 143.166.197.6 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:14:34 +0000 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Last time I had licensing trouble when installing Windows under KVM (IIRC this was Vista, not long after release), I called up Microsoft, swore up and down three times that I was using a virtualization product, and they gave me a code to punch in that resolved the issue.