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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Alexander Graf wrote:
>> I wonder if patching is an option?
>
> Windows does have background daemons that check code in runtime and 
> compares that to checksums. So binary patching might break Windows 
> pretty easily. I'm really wondering why the CR8 patching still works - 
> maybe even that'll break with Windows 7.

kvm doesn't patch Vista since the bios isn't mapped.  Vista doesn't bang 
heavily on the TPR like XP does so patching is not needed anyway.

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