Rework hypervisor detection

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 27 17:16:46 UTC 2014


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On 2014-10-27 12:47:13 -0400, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> I don't have access to phabricator so I'll try and review in
> email.
> 
>> +#ifdef XEN +int vm_guest = VM_GUEST_XEN; +#else +int vm_guest =
>> VM_GUEST_NO; /* Running as virtual machine guest? */ +#endif
> 
> The whitespace between 'int' and 'vm_guest' in the second line
> seems wrong (extra space?).
> 
> For vmware_hvcall() in x86/include/vmware.h, are you sure the
> inline assembly is correct? Have you tried the detection on a
> VMware VM? VMware's documentation specifies the arguments in a
> different order[0], and at Isilon when we tried the port-based
> detection in a slightly older revision of CURRENT, it didn't work
> (IIRC).
> 
> Everything else looks good to me, thanks.
> 
> [0]:
> http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1009458

I
> 
wrote the code and it worked for me at the time.  I'll try again soon.

Jung-uk Kim
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