On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:13:27PM -0600, Ky Srinivasan wrote: > > > >>> On 9/29/2008 at 5:01 PM, in message <20080929210105.GA7835@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Karel > Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:17:28PM +0200, Matthias Koenig wrote: > >> The tool has been written by Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@xxxxxxxxxx>. > > > > Do we really need a new tool? IMHO the hypervisor Vendor ID should > > be exported by kernel in /sys or /proc -- or we can add this info to > We also need a detection mechanism for fully virtualized (HVM) > guests where we may not want to modify anything in the guest. This http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/26/351 ^^^ It seems that the same code (based on CPUID) will be in standard kernel. I don't think that we need to duplicate this functionality in userspace. For example /sys/hypervisor/vendor makes more sense. I understand that your tool is useful for arbitrary (including old) kernels, but is it so important? BTW, I really don't like the name -- "hypervisor". What about something less generic, "hypid", "hvid", ... Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
