X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=virt-what.pod;h=8fd9bc40fcabc890a6f3ece3273ce9802c4147a4;hb=243928da395080d7895111d5e5c0f1ff5f9e95fb;hp=99547c0dba70628739322cc0b26841c139b655df;hpb=b12933e28ac504f461dc1a2f9d4682c72f538d0e;p=virt-what.git diff --git a/virt-what.pod b/virt-what.pod index 99547c0..8fd9bc4 100644 --- a/virt-what.pod +++ b/virt-what.pod @@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ don't know about or cannot detect. =over 4 +=item B + +This is a Docker container. + +Status: confirmed by Charles Nguyen + =item B This is Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. @@ -62,10 +68,28 @@ Status: confirmed by RWMJ using a Fedora guest running in z/VM =item B +This is printed for backwards compatibility with older virt-what which +could not distinguish between a Linux VServer container guest and +host. + +=item B + This process is running in a Linux VServer container. Status: contributed by Barış Metin +=item B + +This process is running as the Linux VServer host (VxID 0). + +Status: contributed by Barış Metin and Elan Ruusamäe + +=item B + +This process is running in a Linux LXC container. + +Status: contributed by Marc Fournier + =item B This guest is running on the KVM hypervisor using hardware @@ -95,7 +119,8 @@ Status: contributed by Justin Clift 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 @@ -112,6 +137,15 @@ This is a User-Mode Linux (UML) guest. Status: contributed by Laurent Léonard +=item B + +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 is printed. + =item B This is Hitachi Virtualization Manager (HVM) Virtage @@ -219,6 +253,13 @@ tool. 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