From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: Re : [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make vmport an optional feature at run time.
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:19:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B70840.2050205@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808261905330.13622@bcny.fcbq.bet>
Ian Kirk wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>
>> Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>>
>>> ----- Message d'origine ----
>>> Apart ESXi, there are software that behave differently if they detect a
>>> virtual environment.
>>> Some of them completely refuse to work.
>>>
>>>
>> What software detects the VMware backdoor and refuses to work? It's silly to
>> argue anything but specifics. It's sufficient easy to detect that guest
>> software is running under QEMU as it is regardless of vmport.
>>
>
> So I guess that a toggle for vmport, in any method of implementation, is
> not wanted then?
>
Not in the absence of an actually use-case.
Options for the sake of options are never a good thing.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-28 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-25 11:21 Re : [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make vmport an optional feature at run time Sylvain Petreolle
2008-08-25 14:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-26 18:06 ` Ian Kirk
2008-08-28 20:19 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-08-28 20:42 ` Ian Kirk
2008-08-28 20:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-28 20:52 ` Ian Kirk
2008-08-28 21:41 ` Anthony Liguori
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