On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 15:29 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:02 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > The game CD has some stuff written > > beyond the "end" of the disc. > I would have thought that correct emulation would allow those same > low-level calls in a VM. AFAIK the guest system can read the whole CD as > a raw device (assuming appropriate privileges). The trick is in defining "correct" emulation and "the whole CD". If the entire ISO image can be read, isn't that the whole CD? Well it is, unless you come across this kind of trickery. So it's not hard to imagine that a hypervisor emulator might not implement the ability to read blocks that are technically beyond the end of the disc. > One reason for some games not working is that they require a better > graphics card than the one emulated by the VM. True, however in at least one case I get complaints like "please use the ORIGINAL CD" when trying to load the game in a VM, even when I *did* have the original CD. There is obviously some kind of copy protection going on that doesn't work properly from within a VM. --Greg -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
