Gleb Natapov ?????: > 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. Can you please give some more details here? I tried this very same thing (on my laptop, trying to run windows Vista this way - on the same machine it was installed), but wasn't successful - booting linux with various -acpitable options and looking at dmidecode and various acpi things did not reveal the new tables... Thank you! /mjt -- 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
