From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WrUa8-0007t2-4b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:55:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WrUZz-0005RR-3h for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:55:28 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-x234.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::234]:36007) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WrUZy-0005RA-Ty for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:55:19 -0400 Received: by mail-wg0-f52.google.com with SMTP id l18so5388670wgh.35 for ; Mon, 02 Jun 2014 08:55:18 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <538C9E60.4040501@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:55:12 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20140601162414.28708.22775.stgit@bling.home> <538C52AF.4010105@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <1401715821.9207.20.camel@ul30vt.home> In-Reply-To: <1401715821.9207.20.camel@ul30vt.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] kvm: Enable -cpu option to hide KVM List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alex Williamson , Michael Tokarev Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org 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