Re: [PATCH 1/2] VMware detection support for x86 and x86-64

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Sep 09 2008 - 16:13:09 EST


Yan Li wrote:

If we get false negatives that is quite frankly their problem, not ours. If nothing else, we should be able to look for a host bridge with the VMWare vendor ID -- that should arguably be safer than DMI.

Yeah, VMware's PCI vendor Id: 0x15AD

Why using PCI vendor ID is safer than DMI?

Mostly because DMI is human-readable and therefore more likely to change for non-technical reasons.

-hpa

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