Bug 614354
| Summary: | [RFE]An activated Windows guest will be asked to re-activate after conversion | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Rita Wu <rwu> | ||||||
| Component: | virt-v2v | Assignee: | Matthew Booth <mbooth> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||
| Version: | 5.5 | CC: | cwei, leiwang, mbooth, mkenneth, rjones | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2010-07-14 09:09:29 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
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Created attachment 431714 [details]
Windows is asked to re-activate after conversion
I don't believe it is possible to fix this issue without fixing Windows. |
Created attachment 431713 [details] source activated Windows guest Description of problem: An activated Windows guest will be asked to re-activate after conversion, for hardware changes significantly. I know that is Microsoft's rule. But it is not convenient for customers to use V2V if they need to re-activate their Windows guest. Is there any solution about it? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-v2v-0.6.1-1.el5 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Activated your Windows guest 2.Convert it to RHEV 3.Run the converted Windows guest in RHEVM Actual results: Activated Windows guest will be asked to re-activate