Re: [libvirt-users] Can a VM tell what host it's on?
On 2/2/2012 1:41 PM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
On 02/02/2012 01:33 PM, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> Is there a way internal to a KVM VM to know which host it's running on?
>
> It could send a command via ssh to virsh on a host, and learn from that
> whether the host currently has it running. But is there something
> within the
> VM itself which will reveal this?
>
> Thanks,
> Whit
I was under the impression that without some creative uses of DMI, this
could not be done.
-- bk
No idea what is or is not in the code in this regard, but as a purely
conceptual thought, why couldn't the host elect to put a small amount of
info, whatever the admin wishes, into the fake nvram presented to the vm
for it's bios?
--
bkw