On Saturday 19 July 2008 09:24:07 Avi Kivity wrote: > Jonathan Mezach wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I've recently gotten KVM to work on my Slamd64 12.1 machine running > > kernel 2.6.26. Once I got everything up and running I tried installing > > Windows Server 2008. The installation went fine and I can get > > everything up and running and it seems to be working fine. Only > > problem is that I cannot activate it. This problem seems to be caused > > by the Software Licensing service that crashes on startup. Apparently > > this service is needed for activation to work. > > > > I'm not sure if this is actually a KVM problem, but I can't believe > > that Microsoft would ship this if it's not working right, because > > without activation the system is pretty much useless. Also, the crash > > occurs in ntdll.dll, which as far as I know is the kernel, so it does > > seem to be some weird problem with the virtualization. So, I'm > > wondering if anyone has actually tried activating Windows Server 2008. > > The Wiki reports that Windows Server 2008 is supposed to work and > > well, it does, but if I can't activate it, it's useless. > > Of course, > > I'm using a legit version of Server 2008. > > I've just fixed a subtle-but-horrible bug affecting Windows Server > 2008. In my tests, Windows would install, boot, and activate fine, but > every once in a while would crash in the kernel during boot. Hopefully > the same bug caused the problem you're seeing as well. > > I'll release kvm-72 soon, please try it out.
I've tried using the recent git tree, but the problem is still there. I did notice though that the QEMU window no longer has the /KVM added to it. Not sure if that has anything to do with it though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
