On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:09:41AM -0700, in...@expertcomputerrepair.com wrote: > <html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; > font-size:10pt;"><div>I've been trying for several days now to get my OEM > copy of Windows XP to pre-activate properly in Qemu-kvm. I saw the > instructions for patching the seabios here:</div><div><a > href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03080.html";>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg03080.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>That > seems to have worked as expected. When I boot, it shows the newly > compiled BIOS, but Windows fails to detect the SLIC codes which I copied from > my working Dell system as per the instructions. My research so far has > turned up the existence of multiple versions of SLP/SLIC which I think may > account for this.</div><div><br></div><div>Can anyone confirm what version of > SLP the patch posted to this list is effective at emulating? Is there > an easy way to modify the patch to support a different version of > SLP?</div><div><br></div><div>I've installed several low level BIOS scanning > tools in the VM to troubleshoot and gather information. None of the > tools I've used (OEMSCAN, Oembios) show a valid SLP 1.0 OEM data in the > BIOS/RAM. But another tool (ReadWrite) shows a valid Dell SLP 2.0 > signature. This leads me to believe that either I didn't copy the right > SLIC information from my Dell PC or the patch is set up to create SLP 2.0 and > not 1.0.</div><div><br></div><div>Any advice or help would be > appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Brian<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></span></body></html>
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