From: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:31:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <526F9C86.8060200@kamp.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131029112659.GB15657@redhat.com>
On 29.10.2013 12:26, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 01:13:24PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:48:07AM +0100, Peter Lieven wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Peter
>> - create a device
>> - write a linux driver
>> - if driver is not enabled crash guest
>>
> For how long to wait before a crash?
I would not like to alter the software in the guest anyway. If this would be required
I could force a Linux version that would search for the alternate KVM signature
in the cpuid leaf.
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-29 11:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-29 9:48 [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU Peter Lieven
2013-10-29 9:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-29 10:11 ` Peter Lieven
2013-10-29 10:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-29 10:25 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-10-29 10:40 ` Peter Lieven
2013-10-29 10:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-29 10:50 ` Peter Lieven
2013-10-29 14:12 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-10-29 15:55 ` BALATON Zoltan
2013-10-29 16:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-29 16:29 ` Peter Lieven
2017-08-04 9:58 ` Peter Lieven
2017-08-04 10:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-04 10:27 ` Peter Lieven
2017-08-04 10:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-04 10:44 ` Peter Lieven
2013-10-29 11:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-10-29 11:26 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-10-29 11:31 ` Peter Lieven [this message]
2013-10-29 11:34 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-10-29 12:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-10-29 12:20 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-10-30 0:16 ` Li Guang
2013-10-29 11:47 ` Daniel P. Berrange
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