On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 04:43:10PM -0700, Phil Borlin wrote: > I have an HP Server with an OEM copy of Windows Server 2008. When I > try to install 2008 as a guest in KVM the HP OEM check pops up and > tells me I am not using supported hardware. It seems the OEM check is > looking for information in the BIOS of the server, but KVM is > presenting the installer with a different BIOS. > > HP support told me that if I was using VMWare I would add the > parameter "SMBIOS.reflectHost = "TRUE"" and then it would work. Is > there a similar solution under KVM? Is there a particular version of > KVM that I need to be running to get this feature? > You can dump SLIC table of your host bios and provide it to guest bios using -acpitable parameter. But you are trying to violate MS licence here. -- Gleb. -- 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
