[Users] Hypervisor info

[René Koch]

-----Original message-----
> From:Sven Kieske <S.Kieske at mittwald.de>
> Sent: Friday 10th January 2014 14:21
> To: Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] Hypervisor info
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure, but might this even be an security issue?
> at least you could get an idea of the underlying infrastructure.

Maybe, but it's already possible to detect nearly every virtualization platform (Hyper-V, VMware, XEN, KVM, VirtualBox...) - see "man virt-what"...


Regards,
René


> 
> 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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