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-rw-r--r--sys/kern/subr_param.c2
-rw-r--r--sys/sys/systm.h3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/kern/subr_param.c b/sys/kern/subr_param.c
index a4d4ff8..f8d60dd 100644
--- a/sys/kern/subr_param.c
+++ b/sys/kern/subr_param.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ SYSCTL_ULONG(_kern, OID_AUTO, sgrowsiz, CTLFLAG_RDTUN, &sgrowsiz, 0,
"Amount to grow stack on a stack fault");
SYSCTL_PROC(_kern, OID_AUTO, vm_guest, CTLFLAG_RD | CTLTYPE_STRING,
NULL, 0, sysctl_kern_vm_guest, "A",
- "Virtual machine detected? (none|generic|xen)");
+ "Virtual machine guest detected? (none|generic|xen)");
/*
* These have to be allocated somewhere; allocating
diff --git a/sys/sys/systm.h b/sys/sys/systm.h
index 3868c9a..7c0dd8b 100644
--- a/sys/sys/systm.h
+++ b/sys/sys/systm.h
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ extern int maxusers; /* system tune hint */
extern int ngroups_max; /* max # of supplemental groups */
extern int vm_guest; /* Running as virtual machine guest? */
+/* Detected virtual machine guest types. The intention is to expand
+ * and/or add to the VM_GUEST_VM type if specific VM functionality is
+ * ever implemented (e.g. vendor-specific paravirtualization features). */
enum VM_GUEST { VM_GUEST_NO = 0, VM_GUEST_VM, VM_GUEST_XEN };
#ifdef INVARIANTS /* The option is always available */
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