On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 04:43:10PM -0700, Phil Borlin wrote:
> I have an HP Server with an OEM copy of Windows Server 2008. When I
> try to install 2008 as a guest in KVM the HP OEM check pops up and
> tells me I am not using supported hardware. It seems the OEM check is
> looking for information in the BIOS of the server, but KVM is
> presenting the installer with a different BIOS.
>
> HP support told me that if I was using VMWare I would add the
> parameter "SMBIOS.reflectHost = "TRUE"" and then it would work. Is
> there a similar solution under KVM? Is there a particular version of
> KVM that I need to be running to get this feature?
>
You can dump SLIC table of your host bios and provide it to guest bios
using -acpitable parameter. But you are trying to violate MS licence
here.
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Gleb.
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