greetings folks. wanted to have aix detect if it was under powervm using facter. came up with this hack for facter 1.6.9 which work for vscsi and npiv enabled vm's under powervm (so far)... havent checked the dev facter so something may be in a different branch already for facter on this topic...
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--- util/virtual.rb.old 2012-06-07 11:54:11.000000000 -0400 +++ util/virtual.rb 2012-06-25 14:20:11.000000000 -0400 @@ -83,4 +83,10 @@ def self.zlinux? "zlinux" end + + def self.powervm? + #Facter::Util::Resolution.exec("/usr/bin/odmget -q name=`/usr/bin/getconf BOOT_DEVICE` CuDv | /usr/bin/grep PdDvLn").chomp =~ /vdisk/ + # should work for vscsi and npiv vm's + Facter::Util::Resolution.exec("/usr/bin/getconf BOOT_DEVICE | /usr/bin/xargs -n 1 /usr/sbin/lsdev -F parent -l | /usr/bin/xargs -n 1 /usr/sbin/lsdev -F parent -l | /usr/bin/xargs -n 1 /usr/sbin/lsdev -l").chomp =~ /Virtual/ + end end
--- virtual.rb.old 2012-06-25 14:23:42.000000000 -0400 +++ virtual.rb 2012-06-07 12:00:38.000000000 -0400 @@ -46,12 +46,16 @@ Facter.add("virtual") do - confine :kernel => %w{Linux FreeBSD OpenBSD SunOS HP-UX GNU/kFreeBSD} + confine :kernel => %w{AIX Linux FreeBSD OpenBSD SunOS HP-UX GNU/kFreeBSD} result = "physical" setcode do + if Facter.value(:kernel)=="AIX" and Facter::Util::Virtual.powervm? + result = "powervm" + end + if Facter.value(:kernel) == "SunOS" and Facter::Util::Virtual.zone? result = "zone" end