This series of patches implements the following: Patch 1/2 : Implement sysinfo for PowerPC. OnPowerPC, sysinfo is obtained by reading /proc/cpuinfo since dmidecode is not available. Patch 2/2 : Based on Eric's suggestion (http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-February/msg00509.html) Allow x86 to read host system's processor information from /proc/cpuinfo in the event dmidecode is not available. Changelog : ----------- v1->v2 : * Rebased and cleanups done. v2->v3: * Patch 1/2 : rebased. * Patch 2/2 : As reported by Daniel, it was found that 'dmidecode' lists socket (and not core-level) information under the <processor> XML tag. The /proc/cpuinfo fallback is also accordingly modified to display a listing of the available sockets under the '<processor>' XML tag under sysinfo. (http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/libvir/msg53922.html) Thanks, -- Prerna Saxena Linux Technology Centre, IBM Systems and Technology Lab, Bangalore, India -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list