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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:04:37 -0200
From: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] expose hypervisor information on cpuid
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On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:52:07AM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Glauber Costa (glommer@redhat.com) wrote:
> > This discussion happened some days ago in kvm list.
> > We believe it's useful to advertise hypervisor information
> > somewhere. /proc/cpuinfo appears as one good candidate.
> 
> What's wrong with /sys/hypervisor?  That's what it's there for.
> 
I believe cpuinfo provides a more standard interface for that.
But I'm not opposed to your suggestion.