<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Under Edit Virtual Machine -> System -> (Advanced Parameters) there is a Custom CPU Type you may be able to set, are all the hosts in the same cluster?<br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 21, 2016, at 9:16 AM, Nicolas Ecarnot <<a href="mailto:nicolas@ecarnot.net" class="">nicolas@ecarnot.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Tom,<br class=""><br class="">Thank you for answering.<br class=""><br class="">Le 21/12/2016 à 14:47, Tom Gamull a écrit :<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Something is triggering the activation that windows is detecting as a<br class="">change in hardware.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Our DCs are made of hosts from 3 different models, so chances are that windows is detecting a different CPU ID or something (that is a pity, as I thought all this was hidden to the guest)<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I’ve not had this problem on 2012 or past versions,<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">It may be true that we only encountered these issues on 2008 R2 guests.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">you’ll usually encounter it when changing the hardware drivers (such as<br class="">converting from physical to virtual). Generally you want to install<br class="">compatible drivers (like the ovirt windows guest tools).<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Every guests here is installed with oVirt guest tools.<br class="">Since then, we made no driver change, neither on hosts nor guests.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""> A good<br class="">practice though is to snapshot before you make a change such as drivers<br class="">in case you need to set the activation key.<br class="">For Desktops in VDI when you use a gold image, you generally make a<br class="">snapshot before activation - see here for an answer<br class="">- <a href="https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/25c4c85c-c8a9-4316-8bfa-d3b7848e6dc6/microsoft-vdi-collections-and-activation?forum=winserver8setup" class="">https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/25c4c85c-c8a9-4316-8bfa-d3b7848e6dc6/microsoft-vdi-collections-and-activation?forum=winserver8setup</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I'm not sure this was relevant.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">what kind of activation keys are you using?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Further readings lead me to think that the kind of key IS the main reason I'm facing this.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Do you have KMS server?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">No. I was told to be very prudent with using KMS servers, so not planned.<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Nicolas ECARNOT<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>