[SeaBIOS] Added ACPI SLIC table

Gleb Natapov gleb at redhat.com
Mon Jun 21 15:16:00 CEST 2010


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.

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			Gleb.



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