/* Determine whether the current process is running under QEMU. Copyright (C) 2021-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ /* Written by Bruno Haible , 2021. */ #ifdef __linux__ # include # include # include #endif /* This function determines whether the current process is running under QEMU (user-mode). It does so by looking at parts of the environment that QEMU does not emulate 100% perfectly well. For comparison, the techniques given in the paper Thomas Raffetseder, Christopher Kruegel, Engin Kirda "Detecting System Emulators" 2007 https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/pub-inf_5317.pdf apply to both the QEMU system mode and QEMU user mode. */ static bool is_running_under_qemu_user (void) { #ifdef __linux__ char buf[4096 + 1]; int fd; # if defined __m68k__ fd = open ("/proc/hardware", O_RDONLY); if (fd >= 0) { int n = read (fd, buf, sizeof (buf) - 1); close (fd); if (n > 0) { buf[n] = '\0'; if (strstr (buf, "qemu") != NULL) return true; } } # endif fd = open ("/proc/cpuinfo", O_RDONLY); if (fd >= 0) { int n = read (fd, buf, sizeof (buf) - 1); close (fd); if (n > 0) { buf[n] = '\0'; # if defined __hppa__ if (strstr (buf, "QEMU") != NULL) return true; # endif # if !(defined __i386__ || defined __x86_64__) if (strstr (buf, "AuthenticAMD") != NULL || strstr (buf, "GenuineIntel") != NULL) return true; # endif # if !(defined __arm__ || defined __aarch64__) if (strstr (buf, "ARM") != NULL || strcasestr (buf, "aarch64") != NULL) return true; # endif # if !defined __sparc__ if (strcasestr (buf, "SPARC") != NULL) return true; # endif # if !defined __powerpc__ if (strstr (buf, "POWER") != NULL) return true; # endif } } /* If you need more heuristics, look at system calls that are not perfectly well emulated in qemu/linux-user/syscall.c. */ #endif return false; }