On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:20:18 -0400
Michael MacIsaac <[email protected]> wrote:
> Christian,
>
> Thanks, that helps. I also found "dmidecode" after searching for
> "systemd-detect-virt".
an advantage of systemd-detect-virt is that it's multi-platform, while
dmidecode is usable on x86 and aarch64 only
There is also "virt-what" tool. And "lscpu" returns also info about
hypervisor.
Dan
> I'll look into them...
>
> -Mike M
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 9:52 AM, Christian Borntraeger <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 03/26/2018 03:38 PM, Michael MacIsaac wrote:
> > > Thanks to all who replied.
> > >
> > > So does anyone know how to query the hipervisor hierarchy, or if
> > > a Lintel is running on "bare metal"?
> >
> > systemd-detect-virt
> >
> > should work.
> >
> > >
> > > -Mike
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 9:17 AM, Christian Borntraeger <
> > > [email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Yes, /proc/sysinfo is a method to expose parts of the STSI
> > >> instruction
> > to
> > >> unpriviledged code.
> > >> This is very z-specific.
> > >>
> > >> On 03/26/2018 02:38 PM, Michael MacIsaac wrote:
> > >>> Hello list,
> > >>>
> > >>> Is /proc/sysinfo a zLinux thing only?
> > >>>
> > >>> I got on a Lintel VMWare virtual machine and was surprised to
> > >>> not see
> > >> that
> > >>> file. If it's not part of Lintel, how do they query their
> > >>> hipervisor hierarchy?
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks.
> > >>>
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