Josip Medved's questions

Did anybody try to install Hyper-V on Intel Atom platform?

Hyper-V requires:

• x64 compatible processor with Intel VT or AMD-V technology enabled
• Hardware Data Execution Prevention (DEP)

It seems that both requirements are satisfied with Atom as processor. However, I wonder whether there is some blocking issue (e.g. BIOS that does not support it) since all Atom motherboards I checked had quite old north/south-bridge.

My intentions are to run two low-requirements virtual machines (embedded Linux), so performance should not be an issue.

Is there some command line function within FreeNAS (FreeBSD) derivative which could return my external address? Since that same address is synchronized with DynDns (via router), in C# I retrieved that via DNS query like this:

var hostEntry = Dns.GetHostEntry("myexternalname.dyndns.org");
foreach (var iAddress in hostEntry.AddressList) {
    if (iAddress.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork) {
        MessageBox.Show(iAddress);
    }
}

How can I find which time-zone is currently in effect on my system and get offset to it?

I need this information in order to offset some time calculations and I cannot make it constant because of daylight saving time (which effectively changes offset).

E.g. Currently my time-zone offset is +02:00 and it will be +01:00 during winter. I need to get which one it is and offset in hours (e.g. in this case answer should be 2).

I would need to do this in either tcsh or bash.

From command line it looks like time-zone isn't set (date "+%z" returns 0). However, from web interface time-zone is set to Europe/Zagreb. I would like to get offset to that time-zone.

Version of FreeNAS is 0.7 RC1.

How to check whether disk is in sleep?

I am doing some reports in background and, if disk is already sleeping, I would like to avoid waking it up. Which command can I use to check its status without waking it up?