How are you disconnecting the VM from the internet? I tried removing the gateway - assigning a fake gateway - turning off the DHCP Server. slmgr reports it cannot contact a KMS Server. If i give a gateway to the internet. It works I just tried on a linux box with QEMU with a tap bridge and it did activate Windows 8.1 Enterprise offline on another machine. Sorry, MY MISTAKE. I'm not a Windows guy IT ACTIVATES ALL WINDOWS AND OFFICE FROM LINUX OFFLINE
Error I am getting this "Error: 0x8007000D The data is invalid. (SWbemObjectEx)" I uninstalled KMSpico v9.0.3.20131025_Beta Edition first. I an lost newB.
KMSmicro appears to work. The tutorial from post 652 in this thread for anyone having problems. Just waiting on Cody to polish it up a bit
ReadMe_EN file updated by Ratiborus Changes: Code: Sometimes the TAP adapter is not initialized, KMSmicro Console does not start. This is can be read from the log QEMU, clicking on the "Settings" tab click "Log QEMU". Helps remove and reinstall the adapter, reboot. Also, if you have two or more network adapters - you can at the time of activation turn them off. View attachment 24912 Just overwrite the old one.
I think you are confusing things. QEmu has no ability to alter the timezone setting in the Windows OS inside the VM. In fact QEmu can't set any timezone whatsoever anywhere. The only thing QEmu sets is the value of the RTC (which doesn't include timezone information).
Just set your OS time zone to Moscow and run KMSmicro as in the tutorial, after activate, change back your OS time.
@kelorgo the link to heldis thread wasn't meant for you it works, of course also with ratiborus' releases, now and then... ok, i stop this now, makes no sense, good night EDIT: i see in your startstring ... -m 256 -localtime -hda Bios...
@kelorgo well, i have to apologise 10x found out that i was messing around not with the untouched image - it was already set to utc ...but ratiborus could set it to utc in the first place...