Comment by jeroenhd

Comment by jeroenhd 20 hours ago

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Even with SEV, you need hardware passed through to the VM. That means either running two GPUs or hot-swapping the machine your GPU is connected to and hoping neither driver crashes and burns (which is what you can expect from any consumer GPU driver that tries to hotplug). The software will also break the moment someone finds yet another side channel attack to break memory encryption. Intel's attempts at secure hardware hypervisors failed so bad they took the hardware out of consumer chips.

In theory you could probably get it to work on some hardware given some boot configurations with some games, but what game developer is going to develop a bespoke Linux VM? And if not the game developer, what Linux developer is going to spend time developing a platform that caters to the wishes of closed-source, rootkit-driven anticheat developers?

Retr0id 19 hours ago

The guest VM doesn't actually have to be Linux, but I don't see why it couldn't be any old distro.

NoahZuniga 18 hours ago

> Intel's attempts at secure hardware hypervisors failed so bad they took the hardware out of consumer chips.

That doesn't seem right. Hypervising is not a feature many consumers use, so why would they spend the money to include it in consumer chips?

  • namibj 18 hours ago

    Watching rented movies is something consumers apparently do; I understand it to have mostly been used for that.

    Besides that, these aren't area-heavy features; it's cheaper to share the core design and just have the feature available anyways than to design it out.