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Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU |
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Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:00:18 +0100 |
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Il 29/10/2013 16:55, BALATON Zoltan ha scritto:
> 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.
Subtly crippling the HPET might work, since Linux will prefer kvmclock.
Good luck when users come screaming for support though.
Paolo
- [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU, Peter Lieven, 2013/10/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/10/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU, Peter Lieven, 2013/10/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/10/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU, Gleb Natapov, 2013/10/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU, Peter Lieven, 2013/10/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/10/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU, Peter Lieven, 2013/10/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU, Laszlo Ersek, 2013/10/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU, BALATON Zoltan, 2013/10/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU, Peter Lieven, 2013/10/29
Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2013/10/29
Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU, Li Guang, 2013/10/29
Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU, Daniel P. Berrange, 2013/10/29