On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 03:55:39AM +0200, Daniele Palumbo wrote: > Hi, > > First, i'm new to this list. > Therefore, hi everyone once again. > > I was upgrading on a Gentoo server virt-what from 1.18 to 1.21. > Suddenly, facter reported that > is_virtual = true. > > I've tracked this down to: > v1.18: > xen-lipi-1 ~ # /usr/libexec/virt-what-cpuid-helper > > xen-lipi-1 ~ # virt-what > xen > xen-dom0 > xen-lipi-1 ~ # > > v1.21: > xen-lipi-4 ~ # /usr/libexec/virt-what-cpuid-helper > XenVMMXenVMM > xen-lipi-4 ~ # virt-what > xen > xen-hvm > xen-lipi-4 ~ # > > This seems anyhow to be a change between v1.20 and v1.21 in virt-what-cpuid-helper.c: > [...] > +static int > +known_signature (const char *sig) > [... > + strcmp (sig, "XenVMMXenVMM") == 0 || > [...] > > If we go back to virt-what.in: > [...] > # Check for Xen. > > if [ "$cpuid" = "XenVMMXenVMM" ] && > ! echo "$dmi" | grep -q 'No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry'; then > echo xen; echo xen-hvm > skip_qemu_kvm=true > [...] > > Therefore the output will always be > """ > xen > xen-hvm > """ > > Which seems to not contain xen-dom0, so i would say that the problem is in virt-what. > If i'm wrong, and the problem is in facter, i would happily report a but there. (I don't read this list regularly, best to CC me ...) Can you see if virt-what 1.22 still exhibits the bug? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v
