Comment 6 for bug 429443

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

This is sensible. If too much detection stuff like this ends up in update-notifier, I suspect we can just create a new package called "cpu-checker", which is the bzr tree I've current got the check-bios-nx code and test suite in.

On another note, I would like to see kvm-ok improved somehow so that it is accurate after a system has been running for a while. Right now, if a system has been running a while and dmesg has scrolled off the top, or if the "kvm" module hasn't yet loaded, there's no feedback on if VT is disabled in the BIOS.