[Users] Hypervisor info

[Sven Kieske]

Hi,

I'm not sure, but might this even be an security issue?
at least you could get an idea of the underlying infrastructure.

I'll dig into which infos are furthermore provided
when I get some time..

Am 10.01.2014 11:18, schrieb Dan Kenigsberg:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 

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Sven Kieske

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