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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