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by throwaway2048 3013 days ago
there is no way to "highly isolate" a VM from a host.
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But there is (though I think they don't use it): TPM based host attestation.
The microsoft secureboot golden key got leaked, anything based on secureboot as a root of trust is 100% blown wide open.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170604013028/https://rol.im/se...

I am not sure this depends on TPM. Care to share a link?
If you don't want to claw your eyes out while reading:

https://bpaste.net/show/571ef50296ac

Theoretically possible via SGX.
Which can be defeated with SgxSpectre: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09085
Oh goodie, I wonder if Netflix is going to disable 4K support on PC as a result of this (the requirement for Skylake was due to SGX).
Worthless if the GPU doesn't have something similar. Otherwise you can monitor the pci-e lanes for all the data the cpu is sending over to the gpu.