From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55771) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXBda-0001p1-Ge for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:39:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXBdV-0004cX-4l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:39:06 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:29431) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXBdU-0004cL-TL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:39:01 -0400 Message-ID: <5342C692.9080607@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:38:58 -0400 From: Chris Evich MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1396777751-10995-1-git-send-email-mjt@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <20140406105335.GB8485@redhat.com> <534135BE.3070003@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <534146BC.5070004@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <534146BC.5070004@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] copy OEM ACPI parameters from SLIC table to RSDT List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Laszlo Ersek , Michael Tokarev , "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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