Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:08:03 -0600 | From | Anthony Liguori <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] show hypervisor information on cpuinfo |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> wrote: > > >> +char * __cpuinit hypervisor_str(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) >> +{ >> + if (c->x86_hyper_vendor == X86_HYPER_VENDOR_VMWARE) >> + return "VMWare"; >> + else >> + return "none"; >> +} >> > > i'd suggest these variants instead: > > virtualization: native kernel >
I don't think "native kernel" really ports well to other architectures (like s390 or PPC) that always have hypervisors present in some form. I think "none" makes more sense in the case of bare metal x86.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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