RE: Generically Determining the Prescence of Virtual Machines

2006-03-20 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
- > From: Jeff Epler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: March 18, 2006 12:01 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com > Subject: Re: Generically Determining the Prescence of Virtual Machines > > I ran the code at the end of 'vm.pdf' inside qemu 0.8.0 >

RE: Generically Determining the Prescence of Virtual Machines

2006-03-20 Thread Burton Strauss
ining the Prescence of Virtual Machines At OffensiveComputing we were looking at ways to detect virtual machines and had found and discarded many unsophisticated methods such as looking for VMWare Tools running as a service or VMWare related registy keys, etc. Then we discovered Joanna Rutkowska&#

Re: Generically Determining the Prescence of Virtual Machines

2006-03-20 Thread Jeff Epler
I ran the code at the end of 'vm.pdf' inside qemu 0.8.0 running a debian linux system. The host system was a single core amd64 machine running fedora linux. I believe that 'kqemu' acceleration may be in use, but I'm not sure. I modified the source code to use gcc-style inline assembly, e.g.,

Generically Determining the Prescence of Virtual Machines

2006-03-17 Thread valsmith
At OffensiveComputing we were looking at ways to detect virtual machines and had found and discarded many unsophisticated methods such as looking for VMWare Tools running as a service or VMWare related registy keys, etc. Then we discovered Joanna Rutkowska's very interesting "Redpill" method. Th