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For PV it's quite easy. 'uname -a' is currently straight up telling me i'm on the el5xen PV kernel. If the kernel itself doesn't just straight up say it's a ke

For PV it's quite easy. 'uname -a' is currently straight up telling me i'm on the el5xen PV kernel. If the kernel itself doesn't just straight up say it's a kernel designed to work under Xen the drivers used to work with the virtualization will give it away. Right down to the version if you care to dig deep enough and compare builds.

cthalupa 11y ago
It's trivial on HVM as well http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-09/xen-feature-detection.html http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-09/xen-feature-dete...