https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/tags/msdm/ Recent content in Msdm on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:30:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/proxmox/moving-an-oem-licence-into-a-proxmox-vm/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:30:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/proxmox/moving-an-oem-licence-into-a-proxmox-vm/ How the OEM licence in a PC's firmware, the ACPI MSDM table, gets into a Proxmox VM: reading it, validating it before QEMU fixes up a broken one, storing it root-only in pmxcfs, and Microsoft's own terms on moving it, including one VM on the licensed machine and why volume licences never use it.