On 01/21/16 12:42, 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.
I've been referring to UEFI because my interest was renewed in this topic by the following OVMF problem report: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/issues/5 Of course, the issue is not specific to OVMF (that's why I posted the patches for QEMU), but I guess it stuck in my mind. Sorry. Laszlo
