From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: "Anshul Makkar" <anshul.makkar@profitbricks.com>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] live migration + licensing issue.
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:19:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53BF1F7C.70909@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM4NYE-h7FuC4T98RnhQH1X=kFJ-kkDtOkqfCCkahM-fAQm14Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 07/08/2014 03:10 PM, Anshul Makkar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yeah, I am aware of this option. But the point where I am concerned is
> that if Windows VM is running in QEMU 1.0 with pc-model 1.0 and then I
> upgrade the QEMU to 2.0 and I specify machine as pc-1.2, then Windows
> will see this as change in hardware and complain about the license.
That's by design. If you were running under qemu 1.0 with pc-model 1.0,
then when you upgrade to qemu 2.0, you must STILL use pc-model 1.0 (and
not pc-1.2) if you want your guest to see the same hardware as what the
older qemu was providing, and therefore avoid a relicensing issue.
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-10 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-08 15:24 [Qemu-devel] live migration + licensing issue Anshul Makkar
2014-07-08 16:25 ` Andreas Färber
2014-07-08 21:10 ` Anshul Makkar
2014-07-09 7:36 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-07-09 11:09 ` Anshul Makkar
2014-07-09 16:17 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
2014-07-09 16:25 ` Andreas Färber
2014-07-11 10:14 ` Anshul Makkar
2014-07-11 11:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-11 11:12 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-07-11 11:50 ` Anshul Makkar
2014-07-11 12:20 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-07-11 11:52 ` Eduardo Otubo
2014-07-11 12:19 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-07-11 12:29 ` Eduardo Otubo
2014-07-11 12:41 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-07-10 23:19 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2014-07-11 10:12 ` Anshul Makkar
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