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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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