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Re:Students have to jump through absurd hoops to use exam mo... by dheera on Monday November 09, 2020 @06:57PM (#25041404)
I would be in favor of a VM that is indistinguishable from a non-VM host. Is there any project that helps bring such functionality to, say, VirtualBox?

Not because I encourage cheating, but because I should never have to install proprietary software on my personal machine to take an exam. I will however on occasion grudingly be okay with installing closed-source software inside of a VM.

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Re:Students have to jump through absurd hoops to use exam mo... by userbinator on Monday November 09, 2020 @10:37PM (#25042604)
Malware often tries to do the same "am I running in a VM" checks to evade researchers' attempts to analyse it, and of course people want VMs in general to become indistinguishable from physical machines, so you're in good company.
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Re:Students have to jump through absurd hoops to use exam mo... by ColanR on Monday November 09, 2020 @07:59PM (#25041818)
Looks like there's one here: https://github.com/hfiref0x/VBoxHardenedLoader/blob/master/B...

Alternately, it seems that QEMU on linux does a pretty good job as well.

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Re:Students have to jump through absurd hoops to use exam mo... by vkou on Monday November 09, 2020 @07:56PM (#25041798)
Do you have any proprietary code running on your machine, or would you just not install any to take an exam?
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Re:Students have to jump through absurd hoops to use exam mo... by dheera on Monday November 09, 2020 @08:18PM (#25041915)
I run Linux and I don't believe I have any closed-source code on my machine at the moment that's not inside of a VM except for NVIDIA drivers.

I usually use VMs if I need to run anything closed source.

You don't need to be entirely vegan about closed-source to care about this issue though; there is a notion of a person trusting certain companies' closed source code over others. That is a thing. For example I would probably trust something like Photoshop slightly more than some random exam company's outsourced exam app.

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