Re: Bug#538202: ITP: virt-what -- detect if we are running in a virtual machine

2009-07-31 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
the easy usecase to me would be -- to install that package in every Debian guest, adjust my bash/zsh configuration so if the tool is present -- embed its output into the prompt. for now I use /etc/debian_chroot within chroots to alert myself that 'I am not at home' ;) On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Russell

Re: Bug#538202: ITP: virt-what -- detect if we are running in a virtual machine

2009-07-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org wrote:         So the script is is only expected to tell if the machine it  finds itself running in happens to have the signature of a known  virtual machine flavour. It is not supposed to determine if it is  turtles all the way down.

Re: Bug#538202: ITP: virt-what -- detect if we are running in a virtual machine

2009-07-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, Jul 25 2009, Joe Smith wrote: Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org wrote: Virt-what is more accurate than Imvirt, version 1.0 can tell the difference between Xen Dom0 and DomU. The new version (1.1, released on 23 july 2009) can tell the difference between QEMU and KVM, and can tell

Re: Bug#538202: ITP: virt-what -- detect if we are running in a virtual machine

2009-07-26 Thread Mark Allums
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sat, Jul 25 2009, Joe Smith wrote: Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org wrote: Virt-what is more accurate than Imvirt, version 1.0 can tell the difference between Xen Dom0 and DomU. The new version (1.1, released on 23 july 2009) can tell the difference between QEMU

Re: Bug#538202: ITP: virt-what -- detect if we are running in a virtual machine

2009-07-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Jul 26 2009, Mark Allums wrote: Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sat, Jul 25 2009, Joe Smith wrote: Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org wrote: Virt-what is more accurate than Imvirt, version 1.0 can tell the difference between Xen Dom0 and DomU. The new version (1.1, released on 23 july

Re: Bug#538202: ITP: virt-what -- detect if we are running in a virtual machine

2009-07-26 Thread Mark Allums
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, Jul 26 2009, Mark Allums wrote: Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sat, Jul 25 2009, Joe Smith wrote: Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org wrote: Virt-what is more accurate than Imvirt, version 1.0 can tell the difference between Xen Dom0 and DomU. The new version

Re: Bug#538202: ITP: virt-what -- detect if we are running in a virtual machine

2009-07-25 Thread Joe Smith
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org wrote: Virt-what is more accurate than Imvirt, version 1.0 can tell the difference between Xen Dom0 and DomU. The new version (1.1, released on 23 july 2009) can tell the difference between QEMU and KVM, and can tell if you are running inside a Xen fullvirt

Re: Bug#538202: ITP: virt-what -- detect if we are running in a virtual machine

2009-07-24 Thread Laurent Léonard
Le vendredi 24 juillet 2009 04:34:23, Aaron M. Ucko a écrit : Laurent Léonard laur...@open-minds.org writes: Description: detect if we are running in a virtual machine What does it offer over the existing imvirt package? Virt-what is more accurate than Imvirt, version 1.0 can tell the

Re: Bug#538202: ITP: virt-what -- detect if we are running in a virtual machine

2009-07-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Laurent Léonard wrote: Virt-what is more accurate than Imvirt, version 1.0 can tell the difference between Xen Dom0 and DomU. The new version (1.1, released on 23 july 2009) can tell the difference between QEMU and KVM, and can tell if you are running inside a Xen

Bug#538202: ITP: virt-what -- detect if we are running in a virtual machine

2009-07-23 Thread Laurent Léonard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: virt-what Version: 1.1 Upstream Author: Richard Jones rjo...@redhat.com URL: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what License: GPL2

Re: Bug#538202: ITP: virt-what -- detect if we are running in a virtual machine

2009-07-23 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Laurent Léonard laur...@open-minds.org writes: Description: detect if we are running in a virtual machine What does it offer over the existing imvirt package? -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ |