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Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital (mashable.com)
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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Could you point me to more info about that?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

At work we sell servers by HPE.
We create Install-ISOs from the included install ISO.

At boot the Installer checks if the system is manufactured by the vendor.
If it is: It continues boot and offers you the installer options
If it is not: It will fail with a message that the manufacturer doesnt match.

On ESXi you need to pass the argument smbios.reflectHost = true (or something along those lines)

Dunno how HPE customized the install.wim
But you can probably get those for cheap on ebay and maybe compare the wims for differences.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah I've reinstalled Windows on Dells and it just works without any hassle because it reads something in the bios that says it already has a Windows license. I was wondering what it reads that would be configured in Proxmox to allow the same. I would be nice to be able to create a Windows VM on the fly without any license setup or license bypass tricks during/after install. Instead it would just work because Proxmox tells it to.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Once installed it doesnt bother anymore with those checks.
So right now my state is essentially an eternal windows VM that doesnt let me change the wallpaper ¯\_(ツ)_/¯