Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: fix xen-detect to correctly identify domU type

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 23.03.16 at 11:14, <JGross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 7. Report type according to features found (this is a little bit
>    ugly: we have to rely on the current hypervisor implementation
>    regarding the bits set for the different guest types).

Well, in some of the cases feature flags only make sense for one
kind of guest, so if such a flag is set it could be used as positive
indication (while it being clear may then still mean nothing).

> Would it make sense to add another file to /sys/hypervisor/properties?
> Something like guest_type, containing "pv", "hvm" or "pvh"? If existing
> this could be used to report the guest type.

That would seem a good idea to me. What do others, namely
Linux maintainers, think?

Jan


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