Issue #20678 has been reported by Daniele Sluijters. ---------------------------------------- Bug #20678: Problems with virtual/is_virtual, virt-what https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/20678
* Author: Daniele Sluijters * Status: Unreviewed * Priority: High * Assignee: * Category: * Target version: * Keywords: * Branch: * Affected Facter version: ---------------------------------------- There's been a number of issues with Facter 1.7.x that the detection of virtual machines is failing. I just ran into it for our Promox machines running on Debian Squeeze 6.0.7, host and guest, where the guests are currently being reported as physical. I've been able to track it down as far as virt-what, which currently returns empty, ergo bare metal. Though I understand the choice for virt-what what someone failed to notice is the many different versions of virt-what currently in use. Debian Squeeze packages a rather old version of virt-what, 1.2 (3 years ago) and in the mean time upto 1.12 (about a year a go) a lot of fixes have been incorporated when it comes to correctly detecting KVM/QEMU, Xen, VMware and Parallels. My guess is that most of the issues with Facter 1.7.x and the different virtual facts stem from there and this needs to be resolved somehow. Newer versions of virt-what will never make it into Debian Squeeze (oldstable) and I'm guessing older versions of Red Hat are hit by similar problems as well, probably quite a few more distributions too. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
