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

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's already HVM strings in SMBIOS and ACPI tables, but they're not
particularly accessible from shell scripts in a generic way.

 -- Keir


On 23/2/08 14:26, "Stephan Seitz" <s.seitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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