Re: Accessing pv_info from userland

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On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Bryan McLellan <btm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there any way to access pv_info from userland? It would be useful
> for determining what type of virtualization the machine was running
> on.

there are usually cpuid functions reserved for that.

for kvm, you can run function 0x40000000, and if you get
ebx =  0x4b4d564b
ecx =  0x564b4d56
edx =  0x4d

you're running KVM.


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