Comment Re:Bring it on, folks! (Score 1) 215
Just detect if CPU performance is above a certain threshold.... Bochs is slow dead slow as is anything else that emulates adequately enough to make this vector of attach relevant even FPU x86 cpus are at 486 performance levels these days.
Until you adjust the base clock so that the software running under bochs thinks it is running at 1GHz while in reality it may be running at 1 instruction per minute. Yes - it's possible to do since Bochs doesn't rely on host system for any hardware, unless you introduce the qemu module for Linux to bring it to near native speeds but someone employing this kind of reverse engineering wouldn't want to do so.
This is possible because Bochs is a 100% software emulated computer. They emulate everything, and even have their own motherboard and video card (VGA) BIOS stacks.