linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] show hypervisor information on cpuinfo

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Message-ID: <20090205190250.GE20470@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:02:50 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...hat.com>
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, avi@...hat.com,
	akataria@...are.com, Glauber Costa <gcosta@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] show hypervisor information on cpuinfo


* Glauber Costa <glommer@...hat.com> wrote:

> +char * __cpuinit hypervisor_str(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
> +{
> +	if (c->x86_hyper_vendor == X86_HYPER_VENDOR_VMWARE)
> +		return "VMWare";
> +	else
> +		return "none";
> +}

i'd suggest these variants instead:

 virtualization:	native kernel
 virtualization:	KVM guest
 virtualization:	VMWare guest
 virtualization:	Linux guest

	Ingo
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