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virt-what - Detect if we are running in a virtual machine

Website: http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/
License: GPLv2+
Vendor: Scientific Linux
Description:
virt-what is a shell script which can be used to detect if the program
is running in a virtual machine.

The program prints out a list of "facts" about the virtual machine,
derived from heuristics.  One fact is printed per line.

If nothing is printed and the script exits with code 0 (no error),
then it can mean either that the program is running on bare-metal or
the program is running inside a type of virtual machine which we don't
know about or cannot detect.

Current types of virtualization detected:
KVM, Xen, unaccelerated QEMU, VMWare, VirtualBox, VirtualPC,
OpenVZ, Virtuozzo, User-Mode Linux (UML).

Packages

virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64 [19 KiB] Changelog by Richard W.M. Jones (2011-01-31):
- Various improvements to the wording in the manual page.
  resolves: rhbz#672285
- Confirm support for Microsoft HyperV and add a regression test.
  resolves: rhbz#670272

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