From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Yan Li <elliot.li.tech@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
joerg.roedel@amd.com, rjmaomao@gmail.com,
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
nancydreaming@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] VMware guest detection for x86 and x86-64
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:23:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080925022325.GA14390@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48da36b9.160d6e0a.22a5.ffffec9d@mx.google.com>
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 08:22:10PM +0800, Yan Li wrote:
> Detects whether we are running as a VMware guest or not. Detection is
> based upon DMI vendor string.
>
> It provides a function:
> int is_vmware_guest(void)
> that can be used easily to detect if we are running as a VMware guest
> or not.
Why do we need to do this within the kernel, what is that going to
achieve?
People can do this easily in userspace if they need to detect this, I
think there's a patch for util-linux-ng adding such a simple utility
that handles almost all of the known virtualization engines right now.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-25 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-21 11:32 [PATCH] X86: remove WARN_ON if MTRRs are all blank Joerg Roedel
2008-02-21 11:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-21 12:47 ` Joerg Roedel
2008-02-21 13:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-21 13:27 ` Joerg Roedel
2008-09-07 23:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] VMware detection support for x86 and x86-64 Yan Li
2008-09-08 0:36 ` David Dillow
2008-09-08 1:49 ` Yan Li
2008-09-08 14:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-09 0:20 ` Yan Li
2008-09-09 0:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-09 12:28 ` Yan Li
2008-09-09 20:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-16 13:32 ` Yan Li
2008-09-17 10:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-17 14:03 ` Yan Li
2008-09-17 14:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-17 15:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-24 12:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] VMware guest detection " Yan Li
2008-09-24 14:10 ` Cristi Magherusan
2008-09-24 14:23 ` Yan Li
2008-09-24 16:19 ` Alok kataria
2008-09-24 16:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25 0:19 ` Yan Li
2008-09-25 0:15 ` Yan Li
2008-09-25 0:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25 2:34 ` Yan Li
2008-09-24 18:13 ` Cristi Magherusan
2008-09-24 18:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25 0:23 ` Yan Li
2008-09-25 1:28 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-09-24 16:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25 0:32 ` Yan Li
2008-09-25 0:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25 2:48 ` Yan Li
2008-09-25 9:56 ` David Sanders
2008-09-25 10:23 ` Yan Li
2008-09-25 2:23 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-09-25 2:47 ` Yan Li
2008-09-25 2:55 ` Greg KH
2008-09-25 3:29 ` Yan Li
2008-09-25 4:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25 12:56 ` Greg KH
2008-09-25 14:38 ` Yan Li
2008-09-25 2:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] VMware detection support " Alok kataria
2008-09-25 4:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25 4:46 ` Alok Kataria
2008-09-25 4:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25 5:02 ` Alok Kataria
2008-09-25 5:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25 5:23 ` Alok Kataria
2008-09-25 5:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25 8:45 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-25 20:48 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-09-25 21:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25 22:20 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-09-25 22:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-26 12:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-09-26 12:47 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-09-26 13:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-09-26 17:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-03 14:12 ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-26 20:35 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-09-25 22:17 ` David Sanders
2008-09-07 23:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] avoid mtrr warning message when running as VMware guest Yan Li
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