Detecting xen

[Hristov, Georgi]

I  understand you want to distinguish them, but what do you use that
for? Is it for some post install customizations? You will have many more
options in the post section instead of the pre section?

 

-Georgi

 

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[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gerrard
Geldenhuis
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:40
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Detecting xen

 

Hi

I have the following in a pre-script to detect whether I am building a
xen machine:

set $(list-harddrives)

vx=$(echo $2|cut -d. -f 1 )

if [ $vx -lt 5120 ]; then

        echo 'xen' > /tmp/xen

 

etc...

 

 

This makes assumptions based on disk size. 

This is a fairly safe assumption for us because we control the disk size
but I was wondering if anybody could suggest a more sure fire robust way
of detecting whether one is building xen or "normal". For normal builds
I am using dmidecode which is working very well and I can even use it
for VMWare builds.

 

My aim is to have one kickstart per service type that adjust itself
according to underlying platform which could be IBM, HP, VMWare or Xen.

 

Regards

 

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