On 04/06/2014 08:21 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > (2) I recently found this forum post from Chris Evich (CC'd): > > Libvirt + Fedora 20 + Windows 8.1 OEM + UEFI = Oh My! > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1694052 > > (scroll up to the start of the thread).
FWIW: "Works" in my instance was defined as "Windows 8.1 installed as a VM and successfully passed M$ activation". As I understand it, there is some "slop" on the M$ side to account for a degree of hardware variation between OEM pre-activation and the consumer "phone-home" phase. My aim was to do everything I could think of to match as closely as possible and get it working. I __did_not_go_deeper_than_that__, meaning verifying ACPI tables and such inside the guest. I did note the installer asked me to manually enter the license key, which I read it's suppose to automatically read out of the MSDS table. Maybe I needed to pull in stuff from RSDT/XSDT or none of the table-copying business was working/necessary. In any case, presumably if I didn't match enough of the hardware uniqueness (uuid, mac addresses, etc) it would have been outside the "slop". Then again, I suppose they could change the degree of slop at some point, so maybe the tables will be important. Anyway, if anyone wants more details, I'm happy to help. -- Chris Evich, RHCA, RHCE, RHCDS, RHCSS Quality Assurance Engineer e-mail: cevich + `@' + redhat.com o: 1-888-RED-HAT1 x44214
