On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Bryan McLellan <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any way to access pv_info from userland? It would be useful > for determining what type of virtualization the machine was running > on.
there are usually cpuid functions reserved for that. for kvm, you can run function 0x40000000, and if you get ebx = 0x4b4d564b ecx = 0x564b4d56 edx = 0x4d you're running KVM. -- Glauber Costa. "Free as in Freedom" http://glommer.net "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
