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This qemu support comes after Amazon added support to the kernel to emulate Xen when combined with their custom vmm. A key component of that is the hypervisor
by monocasa 4y ago
This qemu support comes after Amazon added support to the kernel to emulate Xen when combined with their custom vmm. A key component of that is the hypervisor lying when it's asked by a guest to describe itself.
There's a good chance that 'xen' box is actually KVM and Amazon's proprietary vmm.
- silverwind 4y agoSounds like they developed a `user-agent` situation. Apparently, one must never ask popular software what it is.
- monocasa 4y agoYou either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain (ie. last vestiges languishing as a compat shim that even the developers who support you wish they could finally deprecate and remove).