On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 01:25:57PM -0400, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > Looking at virt-what.in there does not appear to be any order in which > facts are ordered/printed. > > I have a systemd-spawn container running on a vmware guest and receive > the following output. > > -bash-4.2# virt-what > vmware > lxc > > However, it would appear that if I was running kvm with docker, lxc > would be listed first followed by kvm. > > The reason I raise this question - I noticed facter[1] was returning > vmware instead of lxc. I dug in the code and found out that facter is > calling virt-what and is returning the first result. This is facter being buggy ... > If the hypevisor was printed first and then the container second I could > submit a patch to parse the last line of output. Basically there is no defined order of facts. Facter should be fixed so it follows the virt-what API, which is well-documented in the manual. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list