Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:34:07 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] VMware detection support for x86 and x86-64 |
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Yan Li wrote: > > VMware may change the PCI ID at their will so I prefer checking the > DMI since it's easier. > > So if we ditched the official method we run the risk of some false > negatives. But checking the DMI manufacturer would be good enough. >
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.
-hpa
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