Re: How to detect if a machine is a Virtual machine ??

[Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>]

Yeah, sorry about that. Hope you're not confused anymore ;)

Michal

On 12/23/2009 09:39 PM, Sachin Goel wrote:
> Thanks Michal for clarifying..
>
> For a moment I got confused :)
>
> - Sachin.
>
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> From: minovotn@redhat.com
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> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 1:20:34 AM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] How to detect if a machine is a Virtual machine ??
>
> On 12/23/2009 10:34 AM, Michal Novotny wrote:
>    
>> On 12/23/2009 10:16 AM, John Haxby wrote:
>>      
>>> On 22/12/09 10:37, Michal Novotny wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Hi Sachin,
>>>> the tool is not in the virtual machine. This is the tool that's in
>>>> dom0. Since there is a source code for this one you could scp it to
>>>> the guest, compile and run inside the guest environment. There is no
>>>> need to provide a guest with this tool by default and in fact this
>>>> is really impossible so it's better to scp it to the guest and
>>>> compile there.
>>>>          
>>> It's also worth pointing out that the underlying test for xen in this
>>> program executes a particular instruction to find the information
>>> about its environment.   What that means is that it's possible to
>>> write a version of ./tools/misc/xen-detect.c that will work in any
>>> guest machine OS.
>>>        
>> But one more point, if you want to know whether XEN_PV is returned for
>> dom0 PV guest or domU (since it's the same for both) you can try to
>> look for /proc/xen/privcmd. This one is available only in dom0 because
>> privileged commands are for privileged domain (domain-0) only...
>>      
> Oh, sorry, I did mean for domU PV guest or dom0, of course...
>
> Michal
>
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