I have recently taken to getting this PCI-passthrough thing going via OVMF/VFIO.
As chance would have it, steam of course wanted to run the hardware survey on this virtual machine instance, so some of the more important details sent were as follows:
Computer Information:
Manufacturer: QEMU
Model: Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected
Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: Undetermined
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 2129351 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 952524 Mb
OS Install Date: Jan 01 1970
Game Controller: None detected
VR Headset: None detected
Basically I have a Linux host, with Windows running in a virtual machine.
So what I want to know is:
For the purposes of the hardware survey, was this counted as a Windows install?
And would it be possible for Steam to detect the hypervisor (like you do with wine at the moment) to collect statistics on the prevalence thereof, and provide a breakdown on the OS level of how many instances are virtualised?
I do personally think there might be some value in tracking how manyf OS installs are on the metal and how many are virtualised - though I expect the percentage of such users to be fairly small minority within the already small minority that is the Linux user base.
If you're using a Windows VM you're just a regular Windows user to game developers. The hypervisor doesn't affect the game in any way so why should they track it?
Hello,
I have recently taken to getting this PCI-passthrough thing going via OVMF/VFIO.
As chance would have it, steam of course wanted to run the hardware survey on this virtual machine instance, so some of the more important details sent were as follows:
Basically I have a Linux host, with Windows running in a virtual machine.
So what I want to know is:
I do personally think there might be some value in tracking how manyf OS installs are on the metal and how many are virtualised - though I expect the percentage of such users to be fairly small minority within the already small minority that is the Linux user base.