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From: Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: simple check for domU?
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:21:00 +0000
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On 11/11/05, Karsten M. Self <kself@xensource.com> wrote:
> on Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:23:18AM +0000, Chris Bainbridge (chris.bainbri=
dge@gmail.com) wrote:
> > Hi, is there a simple way to check that we're running under a domU? So
> > far I came up with:
>
> Try:
>
>     uname -r | grep -q -- -xen
>
> ... which generally works.  'test -d /proc/xen' is pretty reliable as
> well.

I'm looking specifically for domU and not dom0 (well, it would be
useful to have a reliable way of identifying both). /proc/xen will be
present in dom0 and uname depends on the kernel EXTRAVERSION which
isn't guaranteed.