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There are many, many ways for software to detect it's running in a VM, including ways much simpler than checking impossible hardware combinations. If software
by SharkWipf 8y ago
There are many, many ways for software to detect it's running in a VM, including ways much simpler than checking impossible hardware combinations.
If software wants to know it's in a VM it'll always be able to tell, no matter the measures taken against it.
- userbinator 8y agoThe "simpler" ways are also easier to spoof. I'm talking more about things like malware, which tries very hard to avoid researchers analysing it inside a VM. If software wants to know it's in a VM it'll always be able to tell, no matter the measures taken against it. On the contrary, the VM is what the software is running on, and can always feed the software the answers it wants.