Re: Re : [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make vmport an optional feature at run time.

[Anthony Liguori]

Ian Kirk wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>   
> > Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> >     
> > > ----- Message d'origine ----
> > >   Apart ESXi, there are software that behave differently if they detect a
> > > virtual environment.
> > > Some of them completely refuse to work.
> > >
> > >       
> > What software detects the VMware backdoor and refuses to work?  It's silly to
> > argue anything but specifics.  It's sufficient easy to detect that guest
> > software is running under QEMU as it is regardless of vmport.
> >     
>
> So I guess that a toggle for vmport, in any method of implementation, is
> not wanted then?
>   

Not in the absence of an actually use-case.

Options for the sake of options are never a good thing.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori