Can't setup a VM using SLIC data to activate Win10 in guest

[Joao Roscoe]

Hi all,

I'm trying to migrate my VMs from VirtualBox to KVM/QEMU/VirtManager.

I succeeded converting one disk image to qcow2 format and was able to create and run the VM, using VirtManager (great performance improvement, by the way). However, Win10 within the VM showed up in unactivated state, since I still hadn't extracted the SLIC/MSDM info from the host machine.

I then proceeded extracting and providing the SLIC/MSDM data, as described here, However, the VM now fails to start/install (tried to re-create the VM using the same image file, and setting up the SLIC/MSDM info from the beginning), stating that the SLIC file can't be read.

All bin files are in the same directory as the qcow2 file itself, with universal access permissions.

Searched the web and couldn't find any guidance on this.

I'm using debian 11.

What am I missing here? Any clues?

Thank you in advance,

Joao Roscoe

[Linux-Fan]

Joao Roscoe writes:

[...]

> I'm trying to migrate my VMs from VirtualBox to KVM/QEMU/VirtManager.

[...]

> I then proceeded extracting and providing the SLIC/MSDM data, as described

> <URL:https://gist.github.com/Informatic/
> 49bd034d43e054bd1d8d4fec38c305ec>here, However, the VM now fails to

> start/install (tried to re-create the VM using the same image file, and
> setting up the SLIC/MSDM info from the beginning), stating that the SLIC file
> can't be read.

[...]

> What am I missing here? Any clues?

Have you checked the hint at the very beginning of the gist
"apparmor/security configuration changes may be needed". I dimly remember
that I had to do this when migrating from Debian 10 to Debian 11?
There is even a comment in the gist about it linking to
<https://egirland.blogspot.com/2018/12/get-rid-of-that-fng-permission-denied_7.html>

Also, did you try the `sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM`
suggested in the comments already?

NB: IIRC, back when I migrated all my Windows VMs from VirtualBox to KVM, I
had to re-activate them all...

HTH and YMMV
Linux-Fan

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