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| author | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2011-05-26 15:40:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2011-05-26 15:55:41 +0100 |
| commit | 3ea952163f0c28cd88f8473bb015df892c4247bf (patch) | |
| tree | 8363809b506ac8f2aa32983d9f7a1c0037cc462e /virt-what.pod | |
| parent | 4fbbc8153ab74d5448bbb6d1113f1bc39f55402a (diff) | |
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Add IA64-specific tests for virtualization (RHBZ#707508).
Xen IA64 HVM does not provide a simple way to detect the
hypervisor.
If we are lucky and PV-on-HVM drivers are installed and loaded,
then there will be a /sys/bus/xen directory.
Otherwise we add a timing attack to see if we can detect generic
virtualization. Since this is a big hack, it is only enabled on IA64
and only used when all other methods of detection have failed.
This commit also adds `uname -p` to all tests (enabling arch detection
so we only run the above tests on IA64).
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diff --git a/virt-what.pod b/virt-what.pod index 4304297..7769ee9 100644 --- a/virt-what.pod +++ b/virt-what.pod @@ -113,6 +113,15 @@ This is a User-Mode Linux (UML) guest. Status: contributed by Laurent Léonard +=item B<virt> + +Some sort of virtualization appears to be present, but we are not sure +what it is. In some very rare corner cases where we know that +virtualization is hard to detect, we will try a timing attack to see +if certain machine instructions are running much more slowly than they +should be, which would indicate virtualization. In this case, the +generic fact C<virt> is printed. + =item B<virtage> This is Hitachi Virtualization Manager (HVM) Virtage |