[Users] Windows install / activation issues.

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Middleswarth" <robert at middleswarth.net>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 10:44:03 PM
> Subject: [Users] Windows install / activation issues.
> 
> I am slowly doing my stage two testing now.  I have been finding very
> few issues that is pretty good since 3.1 is just going into feature
> freeze but I did find one that is kinda a show stopper and weird for
> me.  I installed windows 2003 using my Dell CD on my Dell Hardware.
>  On
> both ESXi and Xen Server windows authorization fine because the
> installer sees the Dell bias in some way but under oVirt it doesn't.
>  From my research it looks like the feature is called SLP.  Is there
> anyway to pass the Dell SLP info to the installer like it is done
> under
> both Xen and Vmware ESXi?  I assume it would be a libVirt option of
> some
> kind I just can't find it.

Some specific SMBIOS strings are being passed to identify the hypervisor.
There isn't a feature that enabled passing select host bios strings in oVirt yet (patches welcome) but you can do this with a hook, see here

http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git;a=tree;f=vdsm_hooks/smbios;h=c61ce8e73dc66791eb0390be3e764541b34c1137;hb=HEAD


> 
> Thanks
> Robert
> 
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