Re: [Xen-devel] Shell test for pv vs hvm (vs dom0)

[Stephan Seitz <s.seitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Could it be possible to define some bios magic for "hardware vendor"?
So a HVM Guest would ask "What hardware am I running on?"

Just a thought...

Keir Fraser schrieb:
> There's no general way to discriminate between HVM and native from a shell
> script. You might discriminate between HVM and PV on Linux by looking for
> /sys/hypervisor or /proc/xen.
>
>  -- Keir
>
> On 22/2/08 22:38, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for pointing this tool out!  Looks useful.
> >
> > Unfortunately, for it to be broadly useful, it would have
> > to ship with all distros as compiling it "on demand" on
> > the guest is often not an option.

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