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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

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
>
>    
another option:
_OSI() in ACPI, for ACPI compatible cases.