On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 08:22:52AM -0600, Ky Srinivasan wrote: > Today VmWare does not support cpuid based detection (they will do > it soon but there is a lot of installations out there that need to > be supported). We could look at the output of lspci to detect VmWare > devices for this detection. I guess the problem is also Xen on ia64 where is not 0x40000000 CPUID, my plan is to check /proc/bus/pci/devices for 5853:0001 device. Do you have more details about VmWare? I have found only: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/7/139 > > 2/ show "Hypervisor vendor ID: Xen" (because in pedantic point of > > view Xen is controlling the machine (including dom0)). And add a > > new field: > > > > Virtualization type: para|full|none > > > > for exmaple (dom0): > > > > Hypervisor vendor ID: Xen > > Virtualization type: none > > This was my original idea. Dom0 is always para-virtualized on Xen. OK. > > I think "Virtualization type: para|full|none" is better than > > "Paravirtualization: Yes|No". > > Agreed. OK. I'll send a new version of the patch tomorrow. Thanks for feedback. 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
