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

[H. Peter Anvin]

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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