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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] show hypervisor information on cpuinfo
    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

    > virtualization: KVM guest
    > virtualization: VMWare guest
    > virtualization: Linux guest
    >
    > Ingo
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