[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] eal/x86: get hypervisor name

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Jan 8 17:54:18 CET 2018


On Sun,  7 Jan 2018 23:20:42 +0100
Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:

> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/arch/arm/rte_hypervisor.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/arch/arm/rte_hypervisor.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..3792fe2ce
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/arch/arm/rte_hypervisor.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> + * Copyright 2017 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
> + */
> +
> +#include "rte_hypervisor.h"
> +
> +enum rte_hypervisor
> +rte_hypervisor_get(void)
> +{
> +	return RTE_HYPERVISOR_UNKNOWN;
> +}

Looking at util-linux for inspiration.

Xen is "XenVMMXenVMM"

On PowerPC, the hypervisor type can be deduced from /proc via devicetree.

OpenVz/Virtuzzo can be detected by /proc/vz and /proc/bc



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