On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 02:42:02PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 21.01.2016 14:37, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > I'm afraid I gave up on this -- did give it my best. It turns out > > that the machine that I thought supported UEFI boot does not. I'll > > keep an eye out for such a machine and test this in future. > > BTW, why do you guys refer to UEFI boot all the time? The whole thing > is equally useful on traditional BIOS-booting machines too. Windows7 > uses the same mechanism (looking at RSDT) for offline activation no > matter if it is EFI system or not. > > When I did first version of my patch (based on someone else's version, > but details escapes my memory already), there was no UEFI support for > qemu whatsoever, and it allowed me to use my OEM version of Windows7 > inside a qemu virtual machine without second activation.
Could really do with detailed steps to reproduce the problem. We have never observed it, and I know next to nothing about how "activation" works. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
