On 02/02/2012 11:33 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > Is there a way internal to a KVM VM to know which host it's running on? No. The ideal hypervisor is one where the guest doesn't even know it is running as a virtual machine. And consider live migration - a guest might not be running on the same host over its lifetime. Therefore, there should be nothing that requires a guest to know which host it is running on. > > It could send a command via ssh to virsh on a host, and learn from that > whether the host currently has it running. But is there something within the > VM itself which will reveal this? Why do you think you need it? Perhaps if you ask a better question about what you are really trying to solve, we can give a better answer. -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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