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From: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] eal/x86: get hypervisor name
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 19:05:59 +0000
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My comment was intended as an FYI for future usage.


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From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas@monjalon.net]=20
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] eal/x86: get hypervisor name

08/01/2018 17:54, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Sun,  7 Jan 2018 23:20:42 +0100
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
>=20
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/arch/arm/rte_hypervisor.c b/lib/libr=
te_eal/common/arch/arm/rte_hypervisor.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000..3792fe2ce
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/arch/arm/rte_hypervisor.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> > + * Copyright 2017 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
> > + */
> > +
> > +#include "rte_hypervisor.h"
> > +
> > +enum rte_hypervisor
> > +rte_hypervisor_get(void)
> > +{
> > +	return RTE_HYPERVISOR_UNKNOWN;
> > +}
>=20
> Looking at util-linux for inspiration.
>=20
> Xen is "XenVMMXenVMM"
>=20
> On PowerPC, the hypervisor type can be deduced from /proc via devicetree.
>=20
> OpenVz/Virtuzzo can be detected by /proc/vz and /proc/bc

I really don't see any benefit of detecting Xen or OpenVz in DPDK.