Re: [Users] Hypervisor info

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 09:12:39AM +0000, Sven Kieske wrote: > Hi, > > yeah of course, there are various scripts for that > i. e. http://www.dmo.ca/blog/detecting-virtualization-on-linux/ > > (google is your friend) > > the (afaik) fastest way to detect ovirt is: > > dmidecode | grep oVirt > > but this needs root privileges. > > HTH > > Am 10.01.2014 07:41, schrieb Koen Vanoppen: >> Dear all, >> >> Because of our puppet integration at work, it would like to know if there >> is a way in ovirt to know, from WITHIN a virtual machine, the hypervisor on >> wich the vm is running? And unfortunately, you can even tell the UUID of the specific host on top of which the VM was first started via dmidecode -s system-serial-number in the guest. This feature is unfortunate, as it cannot really be trusted (it does not update upon migration), and breaks an important abstraction.