Re: [systemd-devel] systemd-detect-virt and vendors

2014-10-08 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: Rahul Sundaram > We really should be more specific and call it virtualbox and hyper-v > instead, similar to say virt-what and other similar tools. I will be happy > write the patches if this makes sense. At the least, we need documentation that tells the user what name systemd uses, bas

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd-detect-virt and vendors

2014-10-08 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 08.10.14 09:57, Rahul Sundaram (methe...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > > > I think what would make a lot of sense though is to add a section to > > the man page somewhere, that explains which ID refers to which > > software fr

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd-detect-virt and vendors

2014-10-08 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 10:42:21AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > This would break compatibility, because systemd-detect-virt would > > have to start returning different strings. > > > Ah, I was thinking more about

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd-detect-virt and vendors

2014-10-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > This would break compatibility, because systemd-detect-virt would > have to start returning different strings. Ah, I was thinking more about ConditionVirtualization but I guess we are kinda struck with what we already have

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd-detect-virt and vendors

2014-10-08 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 10:35:25AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Lennart Poettering > wrote: > > > > > I think what would make a lot of sense though is to add a section to > > the man page somewhere, that explains which ID refers to which > > software from

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd-detect-virt and vendors

2014-10-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > I think what would make a lot of sense though is to add a section to > the man page somewhere, that explains which ID refers to which > software from which vendor. Also, it might make sense to add a new > switch to the tool, that d

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd-detect-virt and vendors

2014-10-08 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 08.10.14 09:38, Rahul Sundaram (methe...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi > > Bringing up here for discussion as suggested in > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150477 > > Just for the background, I was checking to see if systemd-detect-virt > supported virtualbox and grepped the m

[systemd-devel] systemd-detect-virt and vendors

2014-10-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Bringing up here for discussion as suggested in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150477 Just for the background, I was checking to see if systemd-detect-virt supported virtualbox and grepped the man page and concluded it didn't since I didn't find the term. I was going to write