From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59404) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMDfd-00044c-W1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:44:58 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMDfZ-0005FY-SX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:44:57 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:51775) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMDfZ-0005FU-NW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:44:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:44:50 +0000 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Message-ID: <20160121114450.GP1766@redhat.com> References: <1452735417-5461-1-git-send-email-lersek@redhat.com> <20160114100359.GU1766@redhat.com> <5697730D.1090006@zoho.com> <20160114102324.GV1766@redhat.com> <5697CE49.9090005@redhat.com> <20160121113746.GO1766@redhat.com> <56A0C40A.1060305@msgid.tls.msk.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56A0C40A.1060305@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] set the OEM fields in the RSDT and the FADT from the SLIC List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Michael Tokarev Cc: Alex , Xiao Guangrong , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Shannon Zhao , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini , Igor Mammedov , Laszlo Ersek On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 02:42:02PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 21.01.2016 14:37, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > I'm afraid I gave up on this -- did give it my best. It turns out > > that the machine that I thought supported UEFI boot does not. I'll > > keep an eye out for such a machine and test this in future. > > BTW, why do you guys refer to UEFI boot all the time? The whole thing > is equally useful on traditional BIOS-booting machines too. Windows7 > uses the same mechanism (looking at RSDT) for offline activation no > matter if it is EFI system or not. > > When I did first version of my patch (based on someone else's version, > but details escapes my memory already), there was no UEFI support for > qemu whatsoever, and it allowed me to use my OEM version of Windows7 > inside a qemu virtual machine without second activation. Could really do with detailed steps to reproduce the problem. We have never observed it, and I know next to nothing about how "activation" works. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/