>>> On 10/20/2008 at 6:51 PM, in message <20081020225124.GC2955@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 No. The last I checked with Zach, his recommendation was to to check PCI space for VmWare registered devices. > > >> > 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 K. Y -- 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
