On 23 September 2015 at 07:18, Andrew Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > ARM/AArch64 KVM guests don't have any way to identify > themselves as KVM guests (x86 guests use a CPUID leaf). Now, we > could discuss all sorts of reasons why guests shouldn't need to > know that, but then there's always some case where it'd be > nice... Anyway, now that we have SMBIOS tables in ARM guests, > it's easy for the guest to know that it's a QEMU instance. This > patch takes that one step further, also identifying KVM, when > appropriate. Again, we could debate why generally nothing > should care whether it's of type QEMU or QEMU/KVM, but again, > sometimes it's nice to know...
This doesn't seem great to me, because it's ACPI/SMBIOS specific. A mechanism that worked whether the guest was booted via APCI or DT would seem preferable to me... thanks -- PMM
