Re: [RFC PATCH] kvm: Enable -cpu option to hide KVM

Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-02T15:55:19Z

Il 02/06/2014 15:30, Alex Williamson ha scritto:
> Then they'll be pissing off more users and driving them to AMD by doing
> so. In any case, having the ability to hide the hypervisor seems to
> stand on it's own. What if we want to test whether a guest behavior is
> the result of a paravirtual interface? What if a user wants to hide the
> hypervisor in order to further reduce the exposure surface to the VM?
> There are reasons beyond an arms race with Nvidia to want a feature like
> this. Thanks,

I totally agree with you.

This doesn't mean that nVidia doesn't deserve some bad press for
starting this kind of arms race, of course. :)

Paolo