Re: [Qemu-devel] Prohibit Windows from running in QEMU

[BALATON Zoltan]

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