From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EFPQ0-000083-Oz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 01:02:49 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EFPPt-0008Vs-DB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 01:02:42 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EFPPs-0008Qm-I0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 01:02:40 -0400 Received: from [64.233.162.201] (helo=zproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EFPLm-0004CH-EH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:58:26 -0400 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i11so77811nzh for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:58:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <79bf984805091321583863314b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:58:25 -0700 From: Mike Swanson Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS In-Reply-To: <4327A6BB.1040509@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <1dc7f0e3050913053635cd61af@mail.gmail.com> <20050913214856.GA31111@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <43278F61.8060103@us.ibm.com> <200509140448.24354.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> <4327A6BB.1040509@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Well, VMware guests can recognise that they're in a VM because the software contains a backdoor INT function, mainly used by VMware Tools for things like Shared Folders and host-controlled mouse cursors insides guests. I don't quite remember what the function was for VMware's backdoor, but you can find info at vmware's back: http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/ --=20 Mike