oem manufacturer version with kvm?

[ion-ral]

a little itch ...
In practice I have a Windows 2008 standard server ibm license and a server ibm x3650 m2
in practice when I start installing windows tells me that the computer is not IBM and the license may only work with IBM ...
with VMware, I have never had this problem ...
Can you tell me if it is a limit of QEMU / KVM or a parameter to be added for them to understand the type of host computer?
thanks

 

[ion-ral]

I solved ...
qemu is only one parameter and do not know in what form you can implement in the config files ...

-smbios type=1,manufacturer=IBM,product=System x3650 M2 -[7947K4G]-

these parameters can be found with the following command:

dmidecode -t 1

the output

#dmidecode 2.9

SMBIOS 2.5 present.

Handle 0x0028, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
    Manufacturer: [B]IBM[/B]
    Product Name: [B]System x3650 M2 -[7947K4G]-[/B]
    Version: 00
    Serial Number: KD328DX
    UUID: 3BCD9713-78X3-3X63-AA58-BD71B27BCE9C
    Wake-up Type: Power Switch
    SKU Number: XxXxXxX
    Family: System x

 

[tom]

thanks for posting this, but aren´t you violation the ms oem license agreement with this setup?

 

[ion-ral]

certainly thinks so, but there may be circumstances where it may remain useful this option would not it? retrieve a configuration, or a momentary use before switching to another valid os

 

[tom]

I agree, I just want to mention this here. (also for other people reading this useful thread)

 

[udo]

thanks for posting this, but aren´t you violation the ms oem license agreement with this setup?

Hi,
i think not - here a link (in german) http://www.jurpc.de/rechtspr/20000220.htm
Sure - it depends on your country...

Udo

 

[ion-ral]

sorry tom but in any case as you can pass that parameter to qemu-server file?
thanks

 

[dietmar]

I solved ...
qemu is only one parameter and do not know in what form you can implement in the config files ...

use the 'args' setting:

args: -smbios 'type=1,manufacturer=IBM,product=[B]System x3650 M2 -[7947K4G]-'[/B]

 

[ion-ral]

thanks