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From: BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU
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To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> I don't know what I'm talking about. But:

Neither do I but...

> - Windows' ACPI parser is super cranky. You could pass in a custom (but
> standardized) ACPI table on the command line (-acpitable) that only
> triggers some warnings in Linux's port of ACPICA, but crashes Windows
> (BSOD). Like, write & compile a simple table to AML, then mess it up
> (eg. Package encoding or some such) with a hex editor. This would take
> some experimentation as well, but searching existing bug reports could help.

This seems evil and fragile (although this can be done without patches 
with a command line option only). But instead why not remove/disable some 
BIOS functions that Linux doesn't need but Windows relies on? This seems 
to be less fragile (although requiring a patch) if it's possible at all.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan