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From: "R P Herrold" <herrold@owlriver.com> To: "Ricky Schneberger" <ricky@schneberger.se> Cc: users@ovirt.org Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 6:42:54 PM Subject: [Users] After upgrade of ovirt > 3.3 all Windows vms lost their activation against Microsoft
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Ricky Schneberger wrote:
Why is the Windows VMs always lost their activation against Microsoft after that I have upgrade ovirt? ... Yes I am sure its related to the upgrade.
In the application log of the VM we can see "hardware has changed from previous boot" and also we have a licensing system on another host that got in a stucked state because of the same reason - "hardware has changed from previous boot".
I see the following discussions ... changes in bios, or hardware device numbers, seem to trigger this
(Citrix instances) http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135542
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX132220/
http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/313096-windows-activation-license-mak-us...
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/w...
So the issue may in some cases be avoided, but in others, will need oVirt attention to not changing values refered to by the licensing validation code. Identifying all those test point valuess so they may be preserved, looks like something the upstream (commercial) vendor would not be very interesting in revealing as it would impact their revenue model, so it probably needs a set of 'reproducers' identified, and test cases written ...
I think the best solution would be if Microsoft would send some patches :-) Ricky, would you open a bug so we can track this issue? Nir