From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60868) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vb6GP-00058O-A3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 06:11:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vb6GG-00014O-66 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 06:11:05 -0400 Received: from mx.ipv6.kamp.de ([2a02:248:0:51::16]:49773 helo=mx01.kamp.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vb6GF-000147-QZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 06:10:56 -0400 Message-ID: <526F89B4.5080504@kamp.de> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:11:00 +0100 From: Peter Lieven MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <526F8457.5040907@kamp.de> <526F8701.2030906@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <526F8701.2030906@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" On 29.10.2013 10:59, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 29/10/2013 10:48, Peter Lieven ha scritto: >> Hi all, >> >> this question might seem a bit weird, but does anyone see a good way to >> avoid >> that Windows is able to boot inside qemu? >> >> We have defined several profiles for different operation systems and I want >> to avoid that someone chooses Linux and then installs Windows within >> a VM. Reason is licensing. > Patch QEMU to crash when Hyper-V extensions are enabled... I was thinking about this, but wouldn't this mean the cpu signature would always be "Microsoft Hv" and not "KVMKVMKVM\0\0\0"? Peter