Given access to separate two Xen instances running Linux, is there some way to identify if the two instances are running on the same physical machine?
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No. Anything you can try can be faked by the hypervisor. Even if you're not running in a hostile environment, the hypervisor blocks all of the interesting hardware calls you can make normally (lshw shows a wealth of component serial numbers on a real machine), and obviously the MAC addresses of all your domUs will be virtual and fake.
You're trying to answer the wrong question, though. Any possible scenario I can imagine this being useful in is better solved with either comprehensive system monitoring or contractual guarantees with visibility of compliance.
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