> "The preferred way of doing this is checking CPUID leaf 0x4000 0000 for
> the signature "KVMKVMKVM". Most hypervisors (KVM, Xen, VMware, and Hyper-
> V) are adopting this as  the preferred detection mechanism." (http://
> article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/20539)
>
> this seems to be the only way to distinguish qemu and kvm, but maybe a
> generic way to distinguish all the full-virtualizer? don't know how to
> access this "leaf 0x4000 0000".

Hmm I'll have a look into this as this seems to be a better way to do
virtual detection going forward.

A quick search shows http://people.redhat.com/kzak/lscpu.c

Paul

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