Re: [PATCH 1/2] VMware detection support for x86 and x86-64

H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-09T20:13:08Z

Yan Li wrote:
>>>
>> If we get false negatives that is quite frankly their problem, not ours.
>> If nothing else, we should be able to look for a host bridge with the
>> VMWare vendor ID -- that should arguably be safer than DMI.
>
> Yeah, VMware's PCI vendor Id: 0x15AD
>
> Why using PCI vendor ID is safer than DMI?

Mostly because DMI is human-readable and therefore more likely to change
for non-technical reasons.

-hpa