Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:44:19 -0500 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@gmail.com> 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: <200812081444.25575.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <9bbcef730812081122r2b1fb938s6201aeee7756b884@mail.gmail.com> References: <200812081839.mB8IdxbT067657@svn.freebsd.org> <9bbcef730812081101o52905c4ak56acfb784bd58d16@mail.gmail.com> <9bbcef730812081122r2b1fb938s6201aeee7756b884@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 08 December 2008 02:22 pm, Ivan Voras wrote: > 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 Personally I have no preference but I think you should move this discussion to freebsd-emulation@ and freebsd-virtualization@. Jung-uk Kim
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