On Thursday 27 October 2016, Karel Zak wrote: > Hi, > > this is lscpu output on my machine: > > Virtualization: VT-x > Hypervisor vendor: VMware > Virtualization type: full > > > I have nothing like VMWARE. It seem the code (commit b7744730) does > not work as expected for non-root users. What about to add Have you checked whether the original code in b7744730 is alreaday broken? Not something about the later PIC/PIE patches? What system are you using? > if (getuid() != 0) > return 0; > > to the is_vmware_platform() function? > > Karel Yes, if it's broken for a "normal" system then we have to remove that. Though would be nice to know what exactly made it stop working. BTW this code is also in the kernel: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c Can't we ask the kernel about vmware somehow? cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
