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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

  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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