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>Immediately after start, the Trojan checks if it does not run in a virtualized environment What would be the performance implications of running everything un
by mistercow 13y ago
>Immediately after start, the Trojan checks if it does not run in a virtualized environment
What would be the performance implications of running everything under a virtual machine on a very light host OS? The idea had not previously occurred to me, but it seems like there would be a ton of advantages to that, including increased security.
I know that some compatibility issues will vary depending on VM software, but from a pure performance perspective, what kind of loss are we looking at?
- gaius 13y agoThese days, not much, 5-10%. Most VMs "cheat" and are effectively paravirtualized (e.g. using guest additions that talk to the hypervisor directly).
- mistercow 13y agoI played some with VirtualBox and an Ubuntu install, and it looks like the graphics support really isn't there yet (WebGL didn't work at all, for example), but I might give it another shot with a non-free alternative at some point.