From: Richard W.M. Jones Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:35:56 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Various improvements to the manual page (RHBZ#672285). X-Git-Tag: 1.8~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c9622b6019744e7fe13bd8ccd93374abc7770683;p=virt-what.git Various improvements to the manual page (RHBZ#672285). --- diff --git a/virt-what.pod b/virt-what.pod index cddc750..0a724d4 100644 --- a/virt-what.pod +++ b/virt-what.pod @@ -27,18 +27,19 @@ don't know about or cannot detect. =item B -This is Hyper-V. +This is Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Status: confirmed by RWMJ =item B -This is an IBM SystemZ (or other S/390) mainframe. Additional -facts listed below may also be printed. +This is an IBM SystemZ (or other S/390) hardware partitioning system. +Additional facts listed below may also be printed. =item B -This is Linux running directly on a IBM SystemZ mainframe. +This is Linux running directly on a IBM SystemZ hardware partitioning +system. This is expected to be a highly unusual configuration - if you see this result you should treat it with suspicion. @@ -47,13 +48,15 @@ Status: not confirmed =item B -This is Linux running directly on an LPAR on an IBM SystemZ mainframe. +This is Linux running directly on an LPAR on an IBM SystemZ +hardware partitioning system. Status: not confirmed =item B -This is a z/VM guest running in an LPAR on an IBM SystemZ mainframe. +This is a z/VM guest running in an LPAR on an IBM SystemZ +hardware partitioning system. Status: confirmed by RWMJ using a Fedora guest running in z/VM @@ -65,7 +68,12 @@ Status: contributed by Barış Metin =item B -This is KVM. +This guest is running on the KVM hypervisor using hardware +acceleration. + +Note that if the hypervisor is using software acceleration +you should I see this, but should see the C fact +instead. Status: confirmed by RWMJ. @@ -91,7 +99,7 @@ Status: data supplied by Jeffrey Scheel, not confirmed =item B -This is QEMU using software emulation. +This is QEMU hypervisor using software emulation. Note that for KVM (hardware accelerated) guests you should I see this. @@ -106,7 +114,8 @@ Status: contributed by Laurent Léonard =item B -This is Hitachi Virtualization Manager (HVM) Virtage logical partitioning. +This is Hitachi Virtualization Manager (HVM) Virtage +hardware partitioning system. Status: data supplied by Bhavna Sarathy, not confirmed @@ -124,13 +133,13 @@ Status: not confirmed =item B -The guest appears to be running on VMware. +The guest appears to be running on VMware hypervisor. Status: confirmed by RWMJ =item B -The guest appears to be running on Xen. +The guest appears to be running on Xen hypervisor. Status: confirmed by RWMJ