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lirent 9b17bdfa33 spoof: SMBIOS type0 BIOS vendor/version/date
Force a real, platform-anchored OEM BIOS identity into SMBIOS type0 (patch 0024 +
spoof_bios_version/spoof_bios_date getters) so the guest does not read an empty or
firmware-default BIOS vendor via WMI/dmidecode. Vendor coheres with the board;
version uses the vendor real format. Inert without a seed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-11 22:14:12 +03:00

3.3 KiB

Anti-detect patch series

Quilt patches injected (by make prepare) into pve-qemu/debian/patches/series, applied in order during the .deb build. Each wires a stock QEMU literal to a spoof_*() getter from the in-tree module (hw/misc/spoof.{c,h}, dropped in by the Makefile). The getter returns the seed-derived value, or the stock default when no spoof-seed is set — so the whole series is inert until a VM opts in.

Authored against the pinned pve-qemu/qemu tree (QEMU 11.0) so the context lines match exactly. Naming: 0002 = infra, 0010+ = one aspect each.

patch covers
0002-x86-machine-spoof-properties register spoof-seed / spoof-hv / spoof-waet / spoof-vmgenid / spoof-pvpanic machine props
0010-acpi-table-header ACPI OEM id / table id / creator + FADT hypervisor-vendor
0011-acpi-policy-waet-vmgenid drop the WAET table; skip the vmgenid SSDT when policy = hide
0012-acpi-device-hids vmgenid _HID (mask), pvpanic _HID (hide), fw_cfg _HID
0013-cpuid-kvm-sig-freq CPUID KVM signature + leaf 0x16 frequency
0014-fwcfg-signatures fw_cfg selector + DMA signatures
0015-smbios-vm-bit clear the SMBIOS type0 "VM" characteristic bit
0016-edid-monitor EDID vendor / name / model / serial / manufacture-date
0017-storage-identity IDE model / serial / fw / cdrom + NVMe model / serial / fw
0018-pci-subsystem-id realize-time OEM-brand of emulated PCI subsystem ids (SVID/SSID)
0019-machine-desc machine desc string → platform board model
0021-smbios-identity SMBIOS type3 chassis / type4 socket + cpu-mfr / type11 OEM / type17 memory
0022-storage-extra IDE WWN + rotation rate; NVMe EUI-64 + NGUID
0023-cpu-microcode CPU microcode revision (IA32_UCODE_REV), vendor-positioned
0024-smbios-bios-type0 SMBIOS type0 BIOS vendor / version / date (platform-anchored OEM firmware)

Why 0018 is subsystem-only (the PCI-id problem)

The PCI vendor:device id IS the guest driver-binding contract: NetKVM binds 1af4:1000, the ivshmem driver binds 1af4:1110, the GPU driver binds its id. Spoofing those breaks the device (no driver matches). So 0018 only rewrites the subsystem id (not used for binding) — and even that skips 0x1af4, because legacy-virtio encodes the device type in the subsystem id. Class-bound devices (NVMe / xHCI / AHCI bind by class code, not id) could take a real vendor:device, but that needs a per-role allowlist. virtio / ivshmem / GPU ids are instead de-fingerprinted by device choice (e1000e / SATA) and vfio x-pci-*, not by id spoofing.

Out of scope (handled by config or upstream, not these patches)

  • PCI vendor:device id for class-bound devices (qemu-nvme 1b36:0010 → a real NVMe vendor; nec-usb-xhci): safe in principle, would need a per-role allowlist in the 0018 realize hook.
  • HDA codec id (QEMU_HDA_ID_VENDOR 0x1af4): a compile-time constant baked into a static const codec descriptor; spoofing needs a runtime override of the GET_PARAMETER verb response.
  • vmport/vmmouse (VMware backdoor port 0x5658): disable via -machine vmport=off (a machine option).
  • hv-mode / hypervisor bit: via the CPU model flags (cpu: host,hidden=1 + hv enlightenments). The module's spoof_hv_mode policy is the intent; enforcement is configuration.