Re: VirtualPC detection?

[Maximillian Dornseif <dornseif () informatik rwth-aachen de>]

On 2005-02-08 22:02:25 +0100, Maximillian Dornseif 
<dornseif () informatik rwth-aachen de> said:

> Now I wonder if anybody is aware of specialized code for detection full 
> scale processor emulations like VirtualPC for Mac, bochs and qemu. Any 
> pointers?

Thanks for your interesting pointers according the issue. With 
VirtualPC it turned out, that we have the same issues than with VMware. 
The devices have names like "VirtualHD" and "VirtualCD". Also the CPUID 
is "ConnectixCPU" - at least with VirtualPC 6.0 - maybe with 7.0 it is 
"MicrosoftCPU".

One interesting thing is that with Xen, which is a VMM technology to be 
included in the Linux mainstream Kernel in near future, also a Xen 
enabled host machine is considered "in the matrix" according to the 
RedPill tool (http://invisiblethings.org/papers/redpill.html#).

Thanks again for the interesting pointers.

Regards

Max


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