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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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08/01/2018 17:54, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Sun,  7 Jan 2018 23:20:42 +0100
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas@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

I really don't see any benefit of detecting Xen or OpenVz in DPDK.