Re: [qubes-users] To use Windows 7 OEM as a Qubes VM; which hardware metadata is needed?

2018-04-26 Thread trueriver
On Thursday, 26 April 2018 10:15:01 UTC+1, trueriver wrote: Correction > To do what you are trying, you would need to use an emulator rather than a > hypervisor. QVM without the KVM extensions would in principle do, but then > you would also have to write the code to emulate every piece of har

Re: [qubes-users] To use Windows 7 OEM as a Qubes VM; which hardware metadata is needed?

2018-04-26 Thread trueriver
On Wednesday, 25 April 2018 22:39:43 UTC+1, @LeeteqXV wrote: > > ... I am basically just curious to know if a OEM version could be made to > work on a permanent basis beyond the 90 days. No legally. The problem you have is that Xen (on which Qubes is based) is not a virtual machine despite

Re: [qubes-users] To use Windows 7 OEM as a Qubes VM; which hardware metadata is needed?

2018-04-25 Thread Teqleez Motley
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018, at 15:24, Stuart Perkins wrote: > Ah, I see what you are after. I doubt an OEM licensed Windows can be > used on a different piece of hardware, but it is worth a shot. You may > be stuck buying a "license". Right. I also have XP licence(s), and get what I need running

Re: [qubes-users] To use Windows 7 OEM as a Qubes VM; which hardware metadata is needed?

2018-04-25 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:05:59 +0200 Teqleez Motley wrote: >On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, at 18:40, Stuart Perkins wrote: >> In that case, I would consider pulling the hard drive and using usb >> adapter to access the information without concern for battery life. > >Hm, I thought that in order to ge

Re: [qubes-users] To use Windows 7 OEM as a Qubes VM; which hardware metadata is needed?

2018-04-25 Thread Teqleez Motley
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, at 18:40, Stuart Perkins wrote: > In that case, I would consider pulling the hard drive and using usb > adapter to access the information without concern for battery life. Hm, I thought that in order to get such metadata out, one would have to access the BIOS/hardware inf

Re: [qubes-users] To use Windows 7 OEM as a Qubes VM; which hardware metadata is needed?

2018-04-24 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:28:19 +0200 Teqleez Motley wrote: >(Btw, I do of course have the license key, and I am NOT going to use that VM >online, so I do hopefully not need security updates or the like.) > > >Regards, >Teqleez > In that case, I would consider pulling the hard drive and using us

Re: [qubes-users] To use Windows 7 OEM as a Qubes VM; which hardware metadata is needed?

2018-04-24 Thread Teqleez Motley
(Btw, I do of course have the license key, and I am NOT going to use that VM online, so I do hopefully not need security updates or the like.) Regards, Teqleez -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

[qubes-users] To use Windows 7 OEM as a Qubes VM; which hardware metadata is needed?

2018-04-24 Thread Teqleez Motley
Hi all, One of my old laptops have Windows 7, and I would like to use that license for a Qubes (H)VM. I have one question and one related concern: a) which metadata is needed for that OEM to continue believing that it is the master OS and running on the "same" hardware as initially set up with