On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/29/2010 04:25 PM, Chetan Loke wrote: > It can be done entirely in userspace. Take a look at virt-what: > > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/ > Just posted a patch for virt-what.in which can be used as a wrapper script. I will be using that for now. >> Question: >> Q1)Is it possible to get this functionality as part of the stock >> kernel or is that a bad idea? I suspect there could be other >> users/apps who would need to know what *nix hypervisor(or a >> non-virtualized environment) they are >> running on? > > It might be reasonable to list the hypervisor signature as a field in > /proc/cpuinfo. There's also a /sys/hypervisor where such information could > go. > I like the idea of spitting out a signature under /proc/cpuinfo primarily because everyone is familiar with that node. > Regards, > Anthony Liguori Regards Chetan Loke _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
