Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 2/4] xen: add sysfs node for guest type

> Hmm, okay. Are you fine with the attached patch? Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 2/4] xen: add sysfs node for guest type

On 14/06/17 19:43, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > >> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor-pmu >> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor-xen >> @@ -1,8 +1,19 @@ >> +What: /sys/hypervisor/guest_type >> +Date: May 2017 >> +KernelVersion: 4.13 >>

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 2/4] xen: add sysfs node for guest type

> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor-pmu > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor-xen > @@ -1,8 +1,19 @@ > +What:/sys/hypervisor/guest_type > +Date:May 2017 > +KernelVersion: 4.13 > +Contact: xen-de...@lists.xenproject.org >

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 2/4] xen: add sysfs node for guest type

Currently there is no reliable user interface inside a Xen guest to determine its type (e.g. HVM, PV or PVH). Instead of letting user mode try to determine this by various rather hacky mechanisms (parsing of boot messages before they are gone, trying to make use of known subtle differences in