On 2020-07-24 17:29, Mark Post wrote: > On 7/24/20 3:26 AM, Stefan Raspl wrote: >> Hi Mark, > > Hi, Stefan, > >> The problem with that is that you will get into trouble as soon as you >> consider >> 2nd-level installs where you have multiple guests and hypervisors to >> display/query. We'd need multiple switches to address the different levels of >> guests, and things get ugly pretty fast. Any ideas how to address that? > > I believe you're over-thinking this. Based on the origin of this thead > and the responses to it, I would argue that people aren't interested in > all that. They want to know: > - What's *my* name > - What's the name of the host system > - What LPAR am I running in > - What CPC am I running on > > That's why I said this: >>> I can't say for sure >>> if many people would be interested in finding out they're running 6 >>> layers of virtualization deep and what each of those is. If someone does >>> want that, they should speak up. > -snip- > >> I would argue that if you want to script, what you really want is a >> front-end in >> qclib that can be accessed by scripts. Yes, querying qclib is certainly more >> complicated than interacting with a command line tool like you layed out >> above, >> but unless we come up with a smart way for that tool's cmdline switches, it >> will >> likely not do what you need. > > I would say that the limited program I'm suggesting would do exactly > what people want. Remember, I proposed this as a way for people to not > have to write all sorts of REXX execs and bash scripts to figure out > this small set of information. There may be others out there that are > interested in much more than this, but so far they haven't said so (on > this mailing list anyway). Fair enough. So in case we detect 2nd or higher level guests, we could indiate so and limit output to e.g. CEC and LPAR only - is that how you would handle things?
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