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Can a program prove it's not running on a vm? This discussion reminds me a Greg Bear novel I can't remember the name of, part of which was trying to figure out
by Latteland 8y ago
Can a program prove it's not running on a vm? This discussion reminds me a Greg Bear novel I can't remember the name of, part of which was trying to figure out if you were an uploaded consciousness running on a vm or not. And there was something like a "person" running on a vm that was trying to break out in the real world.
- snowwrestler 8y agoEternity, which was the sequel to Eon. A guy puts an alien consciousness into a VM in his head hardware, but it turns out those aliens are really good at detecting and escaping from VMs, and the alien takes over his hardware (i.e. body).
- Latteland 8y agoThanks, I was trying to remember that book, that was such an interesting story. I couldn't find it by a web search, took a hackernews search!
- gambler 8y agoPrograms are designed to detect VMs by people who already know the differences between VMs and normal operation. Also, reminder to myself: buy more books by Greg Bear. Good writer, but I always forget about him for some reason.