On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 14:19 -0600, Ed Brown wrote: > > just check for the /proc/xen/capabilities file. > > Sounds like the OP is looking to distinguish xen guests. The file > above is also present on hosts, or any system running a xen kernel I'd > guess. Well, anaconda doesn't run with the xen host kernel, so ... :) > Can this file also be used to reliably distinguish between > guests and non-guests? On the few systems I've got to check against, > the capabilities file contains: "control_d" on hosts, while on all > (pv) guests, the file is empty. control_d should imply a dom0, yes > Also I don't know how reliable, this is, or will remain, but xen > guests are the only systems I've got where 'lspci' returns nothing > (successfully). The likely won't remain reliable -- you can do pci passthrough to a guest Jeremy _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
