ahh apparently not because I definitely didn't see those lines when I was looking over the source. I pulled mine from apt on Debian. Apologies for the false alarm. -pedram On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows > programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw