Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU as a "virtual smart card"?

[François Revol]

> > At least looking naively at QEMU, it seems that its CPU and RAM are
> > well protected from the host operating system--in a way to say make
> > it
> > practically impossible for some malware to extract the secret key
> > used
> > in a virtual machine.
>
> I don't understand: the host operating system, by definition, can see
> everything.  A privileged process (i.e. running as root) can always
> look
> at /dev/mem and read info about QEMU's CPU and RAM.

Or attach gdb and step the whole thing or put breakpoints on
ReadPassword() :)

François.