Re: [Xen-devel] "Bounties" on XEN to Windows2000 support

["Eric S. Johansson" <esj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Pete Taphouse wrote:

> Basically it comes down to the fact that Windows activation is based on
> hardware signatures.  Running over an open-source virtual machine this
> is not a meaningful thing to do.  To get XP working over Xen I basically
> had to bypass the activation mechanisms.  I know of no easy technical
> enforcement mechanism to prevent on copy of XP being run an arbitrary
> number of times.
did you discuss the possibility of simple USB security fobs? as the base 
for the activation key?  These devices are readily available for 
lockware and it seems to me this could be easily adapted to this 
application.  Think of it as a fundraiser for the xen project.
---eric


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