Re: [Xen-devel] How to detect if a machine is a Virtual machine ??

[John Haxby <john.haxby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/12/09 10:37, Michal Novotny wrote:
> Hi Sachin,
> the tool is not in the virtual machine. This is the tool that's in 
> dom0. Since there is a source code for this one you could scp it to 
> the guest, compile and run inside the guest environment. There is no 
> need to provide a guest with this tool by default and in fact this is 
> really impossible so it's better to scp it to the guest and compile 
> there.
It's also worth pointing out that the underlying test for xen in this 
program executes a particular instruction to find the information about 
its environment.   What that means is that it's possible to write a 
version of ./tools/misc/xen-detect.c that will work in any guest machine OS.
jch

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