Re: [Users] After upgrade of ovirt > 3.3 all Windows vms lost their activation against Microsoft

----- Original Message ----- > From: "R P Herrold" <herrold(a)owlriver.com&gt; To: "Ricky > Schneberger" <ricky(a)schneberger.se&gt; Cc: users(a)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... > > >

> > 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

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