----- Original Message ----- > From: "R P Herrold" <herr...@owlriver.com> > To: "Ricky Schneberger" <ri...@schneberger.se> > Cc: users@ovirt.org > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 6:42:54 PM > Subject: [Users] After upgrade of ovirt > 3.3 all Windows vms lost their > activation against Microsoft > > On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Ricky Schneberger wrote: > > > > Why is the Windows VMs always lost their activation against Microsoft > > > after that I have upgrade ovirt? > ... > > Yes I am sure its related to the upgrade. > > > > In the application log of the VM we can see "hardware has changed from > > previous boot" and also we have a licensing system on another host that > > got in a stucked state because of the same reason - "hardware has > > changed from previous boot". > > I see the following discussions ... changes in bios, or > hardware device numbers, seem to trigger this > > (Citrix instances) > http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135542 > > http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX132220/ > > http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/313096-windows-activation-license-mak-used/#entry1674492 > > http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/windows-7-activation-always-come-back-after/b26f8338-ae51-44d1-a0d9-b3a71643548a > > So the issue may in some cases be avoided, but in others, will > need oVirt attention to not changing values refered to by the > licensing validation code. Identifying all those test point > valuess so they may be preserved, looks like something the > upstream (commercial) vendor would not be very interesting in > revealing as it would impact their revenue model, so it > probably needs a set of 'reproducers' identified, and test > cases written ...
I think the best solution would be if Microsoft would send some patches :-) Ricky, would you open a bug so we can track this issue? Nir _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
