pciutils in minimal ec2 image

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 09:31:32AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > I assume it's there because many people have scripts which use the output to
> > determine if they're running virtual or local. SUSE's ec2 utils use it to
> > discover if there's an nvidia graphics card, which I don't think we're
> > concerned with.
> Discover if there is an nvidia graphics card *on their EC2 image*? There
> must be something obvious here that I'm missing.

Ayup. Amazon has Cluster GPU Instances, which have Fermi M2050 GPUs. This is
a super-huge selling point for HPC cloud, because building a local Tesla
cluster is somewhat painful. (I say from experience.)

> If it it's for virt/phys determination, I'd be tempted to just put
> virt-what in core.

+1 from me. But I don't know for sure the original reason was; I'm just
guessing.

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