On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 02:03:28PM -0500, Pedram Amini wrote:
> Detection of Xen on Linode VPS is failing due to /proc/xen containing no files:
>
> /proc/xen# ls
> <nothing>
>
> Perhaps add a check on the existence of the xen directory itself?
> Another alternative place to look:
>
> /sys/hypervisor# ls
> compilation properties type uuid version
>
> /sys/hypervisor# cat type
> xen
Are you using the latest virt-what? In the current version the tests
look like this:
elif [ -f $root/proc/xen/capabilities ]; then
#...
elif [ -f $root/sys/hypervisor/type ] &&
grep -q "xen" $root/sys/hypervisor/type; then
echo xen
which ought to work given what you've described.
Rich.
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