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

[Nir Soffer]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "R P Herrold" <herrold at owlriver.com>
> To: "Ricky Schneberger" <ricky at schneberger.se>
> Cc: users at 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-used/#entry1674492
> 
> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/windows-7-activation-always-come-back-after/b26f8338-ae51-44d1-a0d9-b3a71643548a
> 
> 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