Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 20:22:16 +0100 From: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@gmail.com> To: "Jung-uk Kim" <jkim@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r185772 - head/sys/kern Message-ID: <9bbcef730812081122r2b1fb938s6201aeee7756b884@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9bbcef730812081101o52905c4ak56acfb784bd58d16@mail.gmail.com> References: <200812081839.mB8IdxbT067657@svn.freebsd.org> <9bbcef730812081101o52905c4ak56acfb784bd58d16@mail.gmail.com>
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2008/12/8 Ivan Voras <ivoras@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > How about introducing a read-only sysctl, something like kern.in_vm > that would be > > 0 : none detected / as far as we can tell we're on bare metal > 1 : if detect_virtual() returns 1 > 2 : Xen dom-U > 3, etc... for future use, like VMWare VMI, etc. > > ? > > (of course, for symmetry, if we ever support any hosting for full > virtualization, another sysctl might be introduced as a bitmap :) ). Patch suggested: http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/diffs/subr_param.c.diff.txt
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