Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:23:25 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] VMware guest detection for x86 and x86-64 |
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 08:22:10PM +0800, Yan Li wrote: > Detects whether we are running as a VMware guest or not. Detection is > based upon DMI vendor string. > > It provides a function: > int is_vmware_guest(void) > that can be used easily to detect if we are running as a VMware guest > or not.
Why do we need to do this within the kernel, what is that going to achieve?
People can do this easily in userspace if they need to detect this, I think there's a patch for util-linux-ng adding such a simple utility that handles almost all of the known virtualization engines right now.
thanks,
greg k-h
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