oem manufacturer version with kvm?

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ion-ral

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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
 
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:

Code: 
dmidecode -t 1
the output

Code: 
#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
 
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thanks for posting this, but aren´t you violation the ms oem license agreement with this setup?
 
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
 
I agree, I just want to mention this here. (also for other people reading this useful thread)
 
ion-ral said:
I solved ...
qemu is only one parameter and do not know in what form you can implement in the config files ...
Click to expand...

use the 'args' setting:

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