Hi guys, I've recently gotten KVM to work on my Slamd64 12.1 machine running kernel 2.6.26. Once I got everything up and running I tried installing Windows Server 2008. The installation went fine and I can get everything up and running and it seems to be working fine. Only problem is that I cannot activate it. This problem seems to be caused by the Software Licensing service that crashes on startup. Apparently this service is needed for activation to work.
I'm not sure if this is actually a KVM problem, but I can't believe that Microsoft would ship this if it's not working right, because without activation the system is pretty much useless. Also, the crash occurs in ntdll.dll, which as far as I know is the kernel, so it does seem to be some weird problem with the virtualization. So, I'm wondering if anyone has actually tried activating Windows Server 2008. The Wiki reports that Windows Server 2008 is supposed to work and well, it does, but if I can't activate it, it's useless. Of course, I'm using a legit version of Server 2008. Here is some information on my system: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ KVM: version 71 Linux: 2.6.26 Arch: x86_64 Host: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64 Cmd: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /home/jmezach/VM/W2K8NET35/hda -cpu qemu64 -smp 2 -cdrom /home/jmezach/VM/en_windows_server_2008_datacenter_enterprise_standard_x64_dvd_X14-26714.iso -m 1024 -boot d -usb -net nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:1:00:01,model=rtl8139 -net tap,ifname=tap1,script=no -k en-us -monitor unix:/home/jmezach/VM/W2K8NET35/run/monitor,server,nowait -pidfile /home/jmezach/VM/W2K8NET35/run/pid -soundhw all I've tried running with -no-kvm-irqchip, but that gives me a bluescreen of death on startup. I also tried -no-kvm-pit, but that didn't make any difference. Using -no-kvm it doesn't start up at all. I get the Loading screen with the green bar and Microsoft copyright message and after that the screen just stays black. It's too bad I can't activate it, because apart from that it seems to run pretty nice and the performance is quite good as well. I relly want this stuff to work so I can do some experiments with the new Server 2008 stuff. I hope someone can sort this out. If you need any additional information, let me know. Greetings, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
