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

[Paolo Bonzini]

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