I have never played EVE before and thinking of trying in 2025.

Do they use any sort of kernel level anti-cheat?

I run everything in a KVM guest. I have had zero issues playing EAC or BattleEye games.

I was able to install and test Fortnite the other day just for shits and grins.

Will they ban my account permanently if they catch me using a VM in the future? Or will it just boot me from the game? (Most of the time this is what happens when anti-cheats detect it, and they only ban cheaters)

I don't do anything special to hide my VM except when I play gachas.

When you see people whining about having problems in a VM they just suck at VFIO and libvirt.

I just don't want to put a lot of time into a game and then get my account deleted for playing in a VM.