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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