Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] VMware guest detection for x86 and x86-64 | From | Cristi Magherusan <> | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:10:24 +0300 |
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On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 20:22 +0800, Yan Li wrote: > Detects whether we are running as a VMware guest or not. Detection is > based upon DMI vendor string. > > It provides a function: > int is_vmware_guest(void) > that can be used easily to detect if we are running as a VMware guest > or not.
We can also use this feature to force the HZ value to 100 or 250 at most when running in a virtual environment, since VirtualBox had some issues with this by taking a lot of CPU time when the HZ was set to 1000.
Cristi
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