I've been trying for several days now to get my OEM copy of Win= dows XP to pre-activate properly in Qemu-kvm. I saw the instructions = for patching the seabios here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/h= tml/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03080.html

That = seems to have worked as expected. When I boot, it shows the newly com= piled BIOS, but Windows fails to detect the SLIC codes which I copied from = my working Dell system as per the instructions. My research so far ha= s turned up the existence of multiple versions of SLP/SLIC which I think ma= y account for this.

Can anyone confirm what versio= n of SLP the patch posted to this list is effective at emulating? Is = there an easy way to modify the patch to support a different version of SLP= ?

I've installed several low level BIOS scanning t= ools in the VM to troubleshoot and gather information. None of the to= ols I've used (OEMSCAN, Oembios) show a valid SLP 1.0 OEM data in the BIOS/= RAM. But another tool (ReadWrite) shows a valid Dell SLP 2.0 signatur= e. This leads me to believe that either I didn't copy the right SLIC = information from my Dell PC or the patch is set up to create SLP 2.0 and no= t 1.0.

Any advice or help would be appreciated.

Brian

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