if you do not worry about date inside Windows ... you can use following option ... I have not used this but i am going to use this with windows 7 ... QEMU Manpage -startdate date Set the initial date of the real time clock. Valid format for date are: "now" or "2006-06-17T16:01:21" or "2006-06-17". The default value is "now". __ tharindu On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:42 PM, duck<duck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>I post here because I experiment a lot of >>problem to activate windows 2003 server > > I have, similarly, never been able to activate Vista under KVM. After some > negotiation with the Windows activation backend, I receive an error > inviting me to call Microsoft to use telephone activation, which is an > astonishingly lengthy process which doesn't work either. > > I have tried using various network cards, and I have even tried giving > them MAC addresses which seem to fit into the card vendor's allocated > space in case that sort of detail is being checked? > > Has anyone actually succeeded to activate Vista (or Windows 2008) licences > inside KVM? > > I have given up trying and am now forced to reinstall Vista (2008) every > few months, each time my 4x30 days' worth (4x60 for 2008) of unactivated > operation expires. > > (For those in this boat, http://www.vlite.net/ is very handy, but isn't > for commercial use.) > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html