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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 01:26:59PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 01:13:24PM +0200, 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
> > 
> For how long to wait before a crash?

Or don't crash, disable some other functionality, for example, you can
keep all network links down until your driver is loaded.

> --
>                       Gleb.