On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 04:07:33PM +0400, Arseny Klimovsky wrote:
Hello, in some cases Microsoft OEM licence can be used in virtual machine legally. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing-datacenter.aspx For Windows 7 it is not clear, but possibly it is legal. To make in technically possible, one should use its ACPI SLIC table from original BIOS in virtual BIOS. I've created a patch for some versions (including latest stable), it can be easily cherry-picked in master. http://gitorious.org/seabios/seabios Of course, the patch does not include this SLIC table, only a code and place to put it.
Qemu support passing acpi tables to Seabios already using -acpitable option. It was added specifically to pass SLIC tables.
-- Gleb.