On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I'm pleased to announce the first release of 'virt-what', which is a simple shell script that detects if you are running inside a virtual machine, and prints some "facts" about that virtual machine. This is a frequently requested feature. [...]
On dom0 running a xen kernel (CentOS 5.2), I get: xen xen-dom0 whether or not xend is started. On PV guests, I get the same output (they have /proc/xen/privcmd too). On HVM guests, I get no output. Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Thompson E-mail: smt AT vgersoft DOT com Voyager Software LLC Web: http://www DOT vgersoft DOT com 39 Smugglers Path VSW Support: support AT vgersoft DOT com Ithaca, NY 14850 "186,300 miles per second: it's not just a good idea, it's the law" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------