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

[Gleb Natapov]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:19:54AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 29/10/2013 11:11, Peter Lieven ha scritto:
> > On 29.10.2013 10:59, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> Il 29/10/2013 10:48, Peter Lieven ha scritto:
> >>> 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.
> >> Patch QEMU to crash when Hyper-V extensions are enabled...
> > 
> > I was thinking about this, but wouldn't this mean the cpu signature
> > would always be "Microsoft Hv"
> > and not "KVMKVMKVM\0\0\0"?
> 
> The KVM signature should be at CPUID leaf 0x40000100.
> 
But only recently Linux started to search for it there.

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                        Gleb.