Title sounds confusing and It might be wrong terminology, sorry about that. I have POP OS and windows in VM (virtualbox) for few apps that are not available on linux. Im trying to install one app that requires diferent activation method because it recognized Im running virtual machine. Is there any way to hide that so I can activate the app the way I usually do on non-VM windows?

I hope I was clear enough, cheers

Edit: typo

  • isgleas
    8·
    1 year ago

    With vbox I don’t think you can do that, nor with any other hypervisor delivering full virtualization. You could try with a paravirtualization, like Xen, and see if you can trick the OS

    Note that I don’t know if windows is supported as a paravirtualized guest.

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
      9·
      1 year ago

      There’s patches for QEMU that bypasses anticheats and hides the virtualization and even makes Windows’ use its own virtualization based protection.

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
        3·
        1 year ago

        Was about to post this. Running qemu command line can do this, unfortunately I don’t have my old scripts to do it. It’s pretty common when doing GPU passthrough, so maybe look there?