On Friday, December 23, 2011, 7:11:08, in...@expertcomputerrepair.com wrote:
I think the key is those specific
memory addresses I mentioned earlier.
That's the exact reason - the strings have to be present in the
correct memory region. You can use SLICToolkit (in SLP1.0 tab) to
verify if the
Jernej Simon?i? jer...@ena.si wrote:
That's the exact reason - the strings have to be present in the
correct memory region. You can use SLICToolkit (in SLP1.0 tab) to
verify if the strings are present at the right address.
Alright then, do you know how to modify those values in qemu?
Brian
My patch does not produce any SLIC at all. The instructions mentions
using SLIC from your machine - my patch is just a way to _embed_ a given
data into VM, not a way to produce anything. You get in your VM what
you have outside, either in a file or in your own BIOS, depending on where
you took
Why not just buy a non-OEM version ?
They are surely not tied to a specific piece of hardware and its
licence should allow to run on arbitrary PC HW you happen to want to
install/run it on once activated
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:11 PM, in...@expertcomputerrepair.com wrote:
My patch does
Michael,
Thanks for the response. Since you wrote the patch I'm using I'd say
you are the most qualified to answer questions about it. :)
Note that for winXP, the only thing needed from the bios is to _mention_ -
anywhere in its memory - name of your manufacturer. That is, you can
add any
On 22.12.2011 08:44, in...@expertcomputerrepair.com wrote:
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WinXP requires SLIC version 1.0, which is reduced to just having a string
with the name of your OEM in the bios (one possible place is the SLIC table).
More recent version of SLIC (2.1 I think) is needed to activate windows7.
This
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:09:41AM -0700, in...@expertcomputerrepair.com wrote:
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font-size:10pt;divI've been trying for several days now to get my OEM
copy of Windows XP to pre-activate properly in Qemu-kvm.nbsp; I saw the
instructions
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html.
I've been trying for several days now to get my OEM copy of Windows XP
to pre-activate properly in Qemu-kvm. I saw the instructions for
patching the seabios here:
On 20.12.2011 22:23, in...@expertcomputerrepair.com wrote:
Sorry, I don't normally use this email and didn't realize it was set to
html.
I've been trying for several days now to get my OEM copy of Windows XP
to pre-activate properly in Qemu-kvm. I saw the instructions for
patching the
I've been trying for several days now to get my OEM copy of Windows XP to pre-activate properly in Qemu-kvm. I saw the instructions for patching the seabios here:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03080.htmlThat seems to have worked as expected. When I boot, it shows the newly
Hi. SLIC table can be fed dynamically by utilize the existing fw_cfg interface.
Something like this. (This requires your qemu patch.)
This is just for showing the idea.
thanks,
diff --git a/src/acpi.c b/src/acpi.c
index 6428d9c..e0815bd 100644
--- a/src/acpi.c
+++ b/src/acpi.c
@@ -627,6 +627,7
Here's a quick-n-dirty howto about running OEM version
of windows7 or vista in qemu/kvm, assuming you own a
computer with pre-installed OEM version of such operating
system so you have rights to run it there.
Windows 7 Vista OEM activation are based on a special
OEM marker in BIOS in a form of
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