-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-02-24 17:48, Nir Soffer wrote: > ----- 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 >
Yes I will do that. regards //Ricky -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlMMUIYACgkQOap81biMC2Nb3wCfQ2ubOqioMjLIpKcaAsJIPLkP pdsAoIkSThpzWbrjUNan1AgFF79CnjKp =UERa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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