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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] kvm: Enable -cpu option to hide KVM
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:32:15 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <538C52AF.4010105@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140601162414.28708.22775.stgit@bling.home>

01.06.2014 20:25, Alex Williamson цкщеу:
> The latest Nvidia driver (337.88) specifically checks for KVM as the
> hypervisor and reports Code 43 for the driver in a Windows guest when
> found.  Removing or changing the KVM signature is sufficient to allow
> the driver to load.

Hmm.. Why does it do such thing?  Is it in order to prevent the driver
to work in a virtualized windows, ie to prevent vga passthough to work?

If that's the case, I think it is a lost game.  Because they'll be adding
more, cleverer, checks in the next version.

Thanks,

/mjt

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-02 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-01 16:25 [RFC PATCH] kvm: Enable -cpu option to hide KVM Alex Williamson
2014-06-01 18:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-01 21:11   ` Alex Williamson
2014-06-02  7:09     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-02 14:42       ` Alex Williamson
2014-06-02 15:55         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-02 10:32 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2014-06-02 13:30   ` Alex Williamson
2014-06-02 15:55     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-02 18:01     ` Michael Tokarev
2014-06-02 18:37       ` Alex Williamson
2014-06-02 19:03       ` Bandan Das
2014-06-02 19:18         ` Alex Williamson

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