Does this mean that hardware breakpoints set inside a guest (e.g. with a debugger running within a Windows guest such as OllyDbg or WinDbg) will finally work?
If so, then this is a Great Thing Indeed. Without hardware breakpoints, numerous so-called "software protected" Windows apps -- notably games, but also various more mainstream biz apps -- won't run, because they use code obfuscation wrappers relying, inter alia, on hard breakpoints. This is to slow down and to complicate reverse engineering. Quite a bit of modern malware uses the same sort of obfuscation wrappers (often, actually, exactly the same wrappers as legit software, which is an annoyance for another soap-box :-), which currently rules out KVM as a general-purpose virtualisation platform for analysing and experimenting with security threats, e.g. for reversing and honeypotting... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
