On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Jonathan Mezach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
Actually the "/KVM" window decoration was just removed by one of the patches sent today in the most recent git tree. -- 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
