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minus-squarenocteb@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoSo does running teams in a windows vm prevent me to take a screenshot on the Linux host? I can’t imagine it would.
minus-squareClay_pidgin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoI can’t see how it would. Can a VM tell it’s a VM?
minus-squarevfsh@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThere are plenty of ways for a VM to tell that it’s a VM and not on baremetal, but there’s not really a way for a program running on an OS in the VM to block the Host OS or hypervisor software from capturing an image of the screen of the VM.
minus-squareClay_pidgin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoGot it, thanks. I could imagine that certain software could just exit if it detects it’s not on the host OS.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoAnticheat games are notorious for handing out bans if they detect they’re running in a VM.
minus-squarehue2hri19@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoIt’s too late for this philosophical questions
So does running teams in a windows vm prevent me to take a screenshot on the Linux host? I can’t imagine it would.
I can’t see how it would. Can a VM tell it’s a VM?
There are plenty of ways for a VM to tell that it’s a VM and not on baremetal, but there’s not really a way for a program running on an OS in the VM to block the Host OS or hypervisor software from capturing an image of the screen of the VM.
Got it, thanks. I could imagine that certain software could just exit if it detects it’s not on the host OS.
Anticheat games are notorious for handing out bans if they detect they’re running in a VM.
It’s too late for this philosophical questions