Zachary Amsden wrote: >> VMI can determine that it's under VMware since VMware has to publish >> an option ROM. It's quite neat, but overkill for what we're doing >> (since we're not going to be using a ROM anyway). > > The near to being blessed way to do this is to use a CPUID leaf (I > believe it is 0x40000000) to identify the hypervisor. I don't have > the exact details, but making CPUID 0x40000000 return 'KVMKVMKVMKVM' > sounds like a pretty safe detection technique.
I apparently missed the memo :-) I'll update the patch. Regards, Anthony Liguori > We're probably dropping the ROM probing in favor of this for 64-bit. > Zach > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
