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Re: Best way to detect whether I'm in VPS ? [message #11600 is a reply to message #11580]

Wed, 28 March 2007 06:39

dev
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Registered: September 2005
Location: Moscow

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In .c or in shell?

in shell:
- yes, /proc (.e.g `grep envID /proc/self/status` should return non-zero envID)
- /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab - i.e. disk partitions.
- pids... it is not guaranteed to work in future, but currently
all VE pids have one property:
(getpid() & 1024) == 1024
- empty dmesg on bootup
- others...

all this except for /proc are not guaranteed to work in future.

Thanks,
Kirill

> Hi folks,
>
>
> which is the best way for detecting whether I'm in an VPS while
> n the boot process ?
>
> One way could be checking for some special files in /proc
> (ie. beancountes), but this requires /proc to be already mounted.
>
> Is there another way (maybe w/o /proc) ?
>
>
> thx

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