linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] virt-what.in: Added VMware virt detection using cpuid in wrapper script

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Message-ID: <20100701131547.GI6805@amd.home.annexia.org>
Date:	Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:15:47 +0100
From:	"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@...hat.com>
To:	Chetan Loke <chetanloke@...il.com>
Cc:	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>,
	rjones@...ck.home.annexia.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Tzy-Jye Daniel Lin <ephemient@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virt-what.in: Added VMware virt detection using cpuid
	in wrapper script

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 07:29:01PM -0400, Chetan Loke wrote:
> Brief discussion thread - http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/29/355
> 
> Added VMware detection via cpuid.Mimic'd VMware's balloon driver's init-time
> check(cpuid followed by dmi-checks). Moved the existing logic into a simple
> function to achieve that.
> 
> Tested virt-what.in(ran as a script) and virt-what-cpuid-helper within
> a Linux guest on ESX. Thanks.

Chetan, do you think you could send me this one again as an
attachment.  Some MUA/MTA along the way has sufficiently mangled the
patch such that it can no longer be applied.

Rich.

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