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

[Ricky Schneberger]

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On 2014-02-24 17:48, Nir Soffer wrote:
> ----- 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
> 

Yes I will do that.

regards //Ricky
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