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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Shell test for pv vs hvm (vs dom0)
I don't know, but does libvirt API has any xen compatible methods for
your requirements?
Just guessing, please feel free to correct me.
Thanks,
--Pradeep
On 23/02/2008, 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.
>
> Porting xen-detect to shell script doesn't look possible since
> it uses inline assembly.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Keir Fraser [mailto:Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 2:18 PM
> > To: dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Shell test for pv vs hvm (vs dom0)
> >
> >
> > It's not a shell script, but tools/misc/xen-detect.c will do
> > what you want
> > on x86 platforms. To detect a Linux dom0 you can check for
> > 'control_d' in
> > /proc/xen/capabilities.
> >
> > -- Keir
> >
> > On 22/2/08 20:58, "Dan Magenheimer"
> > <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there an "officially sanctioned" method for a shell script to
> > > test whether it is running on a native OS vs pv OS vs hvm OS
> > > (and possibly also dom0 OS)?
> > >
> > > I know there are lots of different ways to determine this but
> > > am wondering if any one will work across all (recent and future)
> > > implementations of Xen and across multiple (at least Linux-based)
> > > distros.
> > >
> > > If not, perhaps there could/should be a C/python tool in
> > the Xen tree
> > > that does this?
> > >
> > > ===================================
> > > If Xen could save time in a bottle / then clocks wouldn't
> > virtually skew /
> > > It would save every tick / for VMs that aren't quick /
> > > and Xen then would send them anew
> > > (with apologies to the late great Jim Croce)
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> >
> >
> >
>
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