[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] How to detect if a machine is a Virtual machine ??
Thanks Michal for clarifying.. For a moment I got confused :) - Sachin. ----- Original Message ----- From: minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 1:20:34 AM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] How to detect if a machine is a Virtual machine ?? On 12/23/2009 10:34 AM, Michal Novotny wrote: > On 12/23/2009 10:16 AM, John Haxby wrote: >> On 22/12/09 10:37, Michal Novotny wrote: >>> Hi Sachin, >>> the tool is not in the virtual machine. This is the tool that's in >>> dom0. Since there is a source code for this one you could scp it to >>> the guest, compile and run inside the guest environment. There is no >>> need to provide a guest with this tool by default and in fact this >>> is really impossible so it's better to scp it to the guest and >>> compile there. >> >> It's also worth pointing out that the underlying test for xen in this >> program executes a particular instruction to find the information >> about its environment. What that means is that it's possible to >> write a version of ./tools/misc/xen-detect.c that will work in any >> guest machine OS. > But one more point, if you want to know whether XEN_PV is returned for > dom0 PV guest or domU (since it's the same for both) you can try to > look for /proc/xen/privcmd. This one is available only in dom0 because > privileged commands are for privileged domain (domain-0) only... Oh, sorry, I did mean for domU PV guest or dom0, of course... Michal _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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