Re: [Qemu-devel] OEM Windows in qemu/kvm again (mini-howto)

2011-03-31 Thread Isaku Yamahata
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 @@

[Qemu-devel] OEM Windows in qemu/kvm again (mini-howto)

2011-03-31 Thread Michael Tokarev
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 o