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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: wei.liu2@citrix.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com,
	ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: fix xen-detect to correctly identify domU type
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:52:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F2756A.3010202@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56F270A7.6030808@citrix.com>

On 23/03/16 11:32, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 23/03/16 10:25, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 23.03.16 at 11:14, <JGross@suse.com> wrote:
>>> 7. Report type according to features found (this is a little bit
>>>    ugly: we have to rely on the current hypervisor implementation
>>>    regarding the bits set for the different guest types).
>>
>> Well, in some of the cases feature flags only make sense for one
>> kind of guest, so if such a flag is set it could be used as positive
>> indication (while it being clear may then still mean nothing).
>>
>>> Would it make sense to add another file to /sys/hypervisor/properties?
>>> Something like guest_type, containing "pv", "hvm" or "pvh"? If existing
>>> this could be used to report the guest type.
>>
>> That would seem a good idea to me. What do others, namely
>> Linux maintainers, think?
> 
> What's the use case for user space knowing if it's in a PV or HVM domain?

The first thing coming to my mind would be diagnostic tools.


juergen


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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-23  7:50 [PATCH] tools: fix xen-detect to correctly identify domU type Juergen Gross
2016-03-23  9:10 ` Jan Beulich
     [not found] ` <56F26B7C02000078000DF896@suse.com>
2016-03-23  9:19   ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-23  9:29     ` Jan Beulich
     [not found]     ` <56F26FF602000078000DF8C8@suse.com>
2016-03-23 10:14       ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-23 10:25         ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-23 10:32           ` David Vrabel
2016-03-23 10:52             ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2016-03-23 10:55               ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-23 10:59                 ` David Vrabel
2016-03-23 11:12                   ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-23 11:18                     ` David Vrabel
2016-03-23 11:25                       ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-23 19:03                         ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-24 10:22                           ` David Vrabel
2016-03-24 10:58                             ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-24 11:23                               ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-24 11:38                                 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-25  8:54                                   ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-29  6:49                                     ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-29 13:54                                     ` George Dunlap
2016-03-29 14:00                                       ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-29 14:05                                         ` George Dunlap
2016-03-23 11:33                 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-23 12:50                   ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-03-23 10:34           ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-23 10:48             ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-23 10:29         ` Andrew Cooper

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