How to determine whether a Xen guest is paravirtualized or fully virtualized?

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Issue

Xen supports running both paravirtualized and fully virtualized guests simultaneously. What are some methods to determine what kind of virtualization is being used?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.9
  • xen-3.0.3-142.el5_9.3

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