On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 01:27:31PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 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... > What details beyond what qemu -h gives you do you need? I haven't checked this feature for a long time now, may be something is broken. Just did: $ echo hello > /tmp/a $ qemu ... -acpitable data=/tmp/a and I can see new table in acpidump & dmesg -- 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
