Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor-xen

   1 What:           /sys/hypervisor/guest_type
   2 Date:           June 2017
   3 KernelVersion:  4.13
   4 Contact:        xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
   5 Description:    If running under Xen:
   6                 Type of guest:
   7                 "Xen": standard guest type on arm
   8                 "HVM": fully virtualized guest (x86)
   9                 "PV": paravirtualized guest (x86)
  10                 "PVH": fully virtualized guest without legacy emulation (x86)
  11
  12 What:           /sys/hypervisor/pmu/pmu_mode
  13 Date:           August 2015
  14 KernelVersion:  4.3
  15 Contact:        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
  16 Description:    If running under Xen:
  17                 Describes mode that Xen's performance-monitoring unit (PMU)
  18                 uses. Accepted values are:
  19
  20                         ======    ============================================
  21                         "off"     PMU is disabled
  22                         "self"    The guest can profile itself
  23                         "hv"      The guest can profile itself and, if it is
  24                                   privileged (e.g. dom0), the hypervisor
  25                         "all"     The guest can profile itself, the hypervisor
  26                                   and all other guests. Only available to
  27                                   privileged guests.
  28                         ======    ============================================
  29
  30 What:           /sys/hypervisor/pmu/pmu_features
  31 Date:           August 2015
  32 KernelVersion:  4.3
  33 Contact:        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
  34 Description:    If running under Xen:
  35                 Describes Xen PMU features (as an integer). A set bit indicates
  36                 that the corresponding feature is enabled. See
  37                 include/xen/interface/xenpmu.h for available features
  38
  39 What:           /sys/hypervisor/properties/buildid
  40 Date:           June 2017
  41 KernelVersion:  4.13
  42 Contact:        xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
  43 Description:    If running under Xen:
  44                 Build id of the hypervisor, needed for hypervisor live patching.
  45                 Might return "<denied>" in case of special security settings
  46                 in the hypervisor.