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> It's trivial for software inside to VM to detect that

QEMU can get you very far in masking the presence of a VM. If it can work around Nvidia's cash grab of not allowing consumer cards to be used in VMs, it should be able to deal with whatever bullshit spyware.




If you run `dmidecode` inside a Linux VM running (on QEMU), do the returned strings not show extremely obvious VM-only things?

When doing so on VMware or KVM, things are extremely obvious. I haven't tried just plain QEMU though. :)


With QEMU you can configure that and make it say whatever you want ( which is how you can lie to an Nvidia card).


Cool. That's definitely useful then. :)




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