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From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu version updates break Windows activation
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:09:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <492D66A2.8040603@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081126145929.GA1221@shareable.org>

Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Frederik Himpe wrote:
>> Every time qemu/kvm is updated, the version strings in the virtual 
>> hardware change, which breaks an activated windows installation in qemu. 
>> Windows thinks it's running on other hardware, and requires manual re-
>> activation by phone.
>>
>> Could the version strings please be made optional in the hardware?
>>
>> See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467043
> 
> Does Windows also break whenever you do a firmware update on a real
> machine?
> 

Of course it does :)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-26 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-25 19:23 [Qemu-devel] qemu version updates break Windows activation Frederik Himpe
2008-11-26 14:59 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-26 15:08   ` Paul Brook
2008-11-26 15:09   ` Stefano Stabellini [this message]
2008-11-27 14:38 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-27 14:47   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-27 14:58     ` Ben Taylor
2008-11-27 14:58   ` Daniel P. Berrange

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