Detect Illumos (SmartOS/OmniOS) LX virtualization

[virt-what.git] / virt-what.pod

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@@ -25,12 +25,63 @@ don't know about or cannot detect.
 
 =over 4
 
 
 =over 4
 

+=item B<alibaba_cloud>
+
+=item B<alibaba_cloud-ebm>
+
+This is a cloud computing service based on Alibaba Cloud.
+
+Status: contributed by Weisson.
+
+=item B<aws>
+
+Amazon Web Services.
+
+Note that virt-what will print this fact for baremetal AWS instances,
+which you might not consider to be true virtualization.  In this case
+other facts (eg. C<kvm> or C<xen>) would I<not> be present.
+
+Status: contributed by Qi Guo, Vitaly Kuznetsov, confirmed by RWMJ.
+
+=item B<bhyve>
+
+This is a bhyve (FreeBSD hypervisor) guest.
+
+Status: contributed by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel.
+
+=item B<docker>
+
+This is a Docker container.
+
+Status: confirmed by Charles Nguyen
+
+=item B<google_cloud>
+
+This is running on Google Cloud Platform / Google Compute Engine.
+
+Status: not confirmed
+

 =item B<hyperv>
 
 This is Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor.
 
 Status: confirmed by RWMJ
 
 =item B<hyperv>
 
 This is Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor.
 
 Status: confirmed by RWMJ
 

+=item B<ibm_power-kvm>
+
+This is an IBM POWER KVM guest.
+
+Status: contributed by Adrian Likins.
+
+=item B<ibm_power-lpar_shared>
+
+=item B<ibm_power-lpar_dedicated>
+
+This is an IBM POWER LPAR (hardware partition) in either shared
+or dedicated mode.
+
+Status: contributed by Adrian Likins.
+

 =item B<ibm_systemz>
 
 This is an IBM SystemZ (or other S/390) hardware partitioning system.
 =item B<ibm_systemz>
 
 This is an IBM SystemZ (or other S/390) hardware partitioning system.


@@ -51,7 +102,7 @@ Status: not confirmed
 This is Linux running directly on an LPAR on an IBM SystemZ
 hardware partitioning system.
 
 This is Linux running directly on an LPAR on an IBM SystemZ
 hardware partitioning system.
 

-Status: not confirmed
+Status: confirmed by Thomas Huth

 
 =item B<ibm_systemz-zvm>
 
 
 =item B<ibm_systemz-zvm>
 


@@ -60,12 +111,73 @@ hardware partitioning system.
 
 Status: confirmed by RWMJ using a Fedora guest running in z/VM
 
 
 Status: confirmed by RWMJ using a Fedora guest running in z/VM
 

+=item B<ibm_systemz-kvm>
+
+This is a KVM guest running on an IBM System Z hardware system.
+
+Status: contributed by Thomas Huth
+
+=item B<illumos-lx>
+
+The guest is running on Illumos with a Linux syscall emulation layer.
+
+Status: contributed by Steve Mokris
+
+=item B<ldoms>
+
+The guest appears to be running on an Linux SPARC system with
+Oracle VM Server for SPARC (Logical Domains) support.
+
+Status: contributed by Darren Kenny
+
+=item B<ldoms-control>
+
+The is the Oracle VM Server for SPARC (Logical Domains) control domain.
+
+Status: contributed by Darren Kenny
+
+=item B<ldoms-guest>
+
+The is the Oracle VM Server for SPARC (Logical Domains) guest domain.
+
+Status: contributed by Darren Kenny
+
+=item B<ldoms-io>
+
+The is the Oracle VM Server for SPARC (Logical Domains) I/O domain.
+
+Status: contributed by Darren Kenny
+
+=item B<ldoms-root>
+
+The is the Oracle VM Server for SPARC (Logical Domains) Root domain.
+
+Status: contributed by Darren Kenny
+

 =item B<linux_vserver>
 
 =item B<linux_vserver>
 

+This is printed for backwards compatibility with older virt-what which
+could not distinguish between a Linux VServer container guest and
+host.
+
+=item B<linux_vserver-guest>
+

 This process is running in a Linux VServer container.
 
 Status: contributed by Barış Metin
 
 This process is running in a Linux VServer container.
 
 Status: contributed by Barış Metin
 

+=item B<linux_vserver-host>
+
+This process is running as the Linux VServer host (VxID 0).
+
+Status: contributed by Barış Metin and Elan Ruusamäe
+
+=item B<lxc>
+
+This process is running in a Linux LXC container.
+
+Status: contributed by Marc Fournier
+

 =item B<kvm>
 
 This guest is running on the KVM hypervisor using hardware
 =item B<kvm>
 
 This guest is running on the KVM hypervisor using hardware


@@ -77,6 +189,20 @@ instead.
 
 Status: confirmed by RWMJ.
 
 
 Status: confirmed by RWMJ.
 

+=item B<lkvm>
+
+This guest is running on the KVM hypervisor using hardware
+acceleration, and the userspace component of the hypervisor
+is lkvm (a.k.a kvmtool).
+
+Status: contributed by Andrew Jones
+
+=item B<nutanix_ahv>
+
+The guest is running inside Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV).
+
+Status: confirmed by RWMJ.
+

 =item B<openvz>
 
 The guest appears to be running inside an OpenVZ or Virtuozzo
 =item B<openvz>
 
 The guest appears to be running inside an OpenVZ or Virtuozzo


@@ -84,6 +210,13 @@ container.
 
 Status: contributed by Evgeniy Sokolov
 
 
 Status: contributed by Evgeniy Sokolov
 

+=item B<ovirt>
+
+The guest is running on an oVirt node.
+(See also C<rhev> below).
+
+Status: contributed by RWMJ, not confirmed
+

 =item B<parallels>
 
 The guest is running inside Parallels Virtual Platform
 =item B<parallels>
 
 The guest is running inside Parallels Virtual Platform


@@ -91,11 +224,18 @@ The guest is running inside Parallels Virtual Platform
 
 Status: contributed by Justin Clift
 
 
 Status: contributed by Justin Clift
 

+=item B<podman>
+
+This is a Podman container.
+
+Status: contributed by Jordan Webb
+

 =item B<powervm_lx86>
 
 The guest is running inside IBM PowerVM Lx86 Linux/x86 emulator.
 
 =item B<powervm_lx86>
 
 The guest is running inside IBM PowerVM Lx86 Linux/x86 emulator.
 

-Status: data supplied by Jeffrey Scheel, not confirmed
+Status: data originally supplied by Jeffrey Scheel, confirmed by
+Yufang Zhang and RWMJ

 
 =item B<qemu>
 
 
 =item B<qemu>
 


@@ -106,12 +246,33 @@ this.
 
 Status: confirmed by RWMJ.
 
 
 Status: confirmed by RWMJ.
 

+=item B<rhev>
+
+The guest is running on a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) node.
+
+Status: confirmed by RWMJ
+
+=item B<redhat>
+
+The guest is running on the Red Hat hypervisor.
+
+Status: confirmed by RWMJ
+

 =item B<uml>
 
 This is a User-Mode Linux (UML) guest.
 
 Status: contributed by Laurent Léonard
 
 =item B<uml>
 
 This is a User-Mode Linux (UML) guest.
 
 Status: contributed by Laurent Léonard
 

+=item B<virt>
+
+Some sort of virtualization appears to be present, but we are not sure
+what it is.  In some very rare corner cases where we know that
+virtualization is hard to detect, we will try a timing attack to see
+if certain machine instructions are running much more slowly than they
+should be, which would indicate virtualization.  In this case, the
+generic fact C<virt> is printed.
+

 =item B<virtage>
 
 This is Hitachi Virtualization Manager (HVM) Virtage
 =item B<virtage>
 
 This is Hitachi Virtualization Manager (HVM) Virtage


@@ -131,6 +292,12 @@ The guest appears to be running on Microsoft VirtualPC.
 
 Status: not confirmed
 
 
 Status: not confirmed
 

+=item B<vmm>
+
+This is a vmm (OpenBSD hypervisor) guest.
+
+Status: contributed by Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse.
+

 =item B<vmware>
 
 The guest appears to be running on VMware hypervisor.
 =item B<vmware>
 
 The guest appears to be running on VMware hypervisor.


@@ -219,6 +386,13 @@ tool.
 
 You might include this information in status and monitoring programs.
 
 
 You might include this information in status and monitoring programs.
 

+=item System tuning (sometimes)
+
+You might use this program to tune an operating system so it runs
+better as a virtual machine of a particular hypervisor.  However if
+installing paravirtualized drivers, it's better to check for the
+specific features your drivers need (eg. for the presence of PCI devices).
+

 =back
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 =back
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO


@@ -237,7 +411,7 @@ Richard W.M. Jones <rjones @ redhat . com>
 
 =head1 COPYRIGHT
 
 
 =head1 COPYRIGHT
 

-(C) Copyright 2008-2011 Red Hat Inc.,
+(C) Copyright 2008-2015 Red Hat Inc.,

 L<http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/>
 
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 L<http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/>
 
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify