On 23/03/16 10:25, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 23.03.16 at 11:14, <jgr...@suse.com> wrote:
>> 7. Report type according to features found (this is a little bit
>>    ugly: we have to rely on the current hypervisor implementation
>>    regarding the bits set for the different guest types).
> 
> Well, in some of the cases feature flags only make sense for one
> kind of guest, so if such a flag is set it could be used as positive
> indication (while it being clear may then still mean nothing).
> 
>> Would it make sense to add another file to /sys/hypervisor/properties?
>> Something like guest_type, containing "pv", "hvm" or "pvh"? If existing
>> this could be used to report the guest type.
> 
> That would seem a good idea to me. What do others, namely
> Linux maintainers, think?

What's the use case for user space knowing if it's in a PV or HVM domain?

David

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