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diff --git a/virt-what.pod b/virt-what.pod
index 4304297..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<docker>
+
+This is a Docker container.
+
+Status: confirmed by Charles Nguyen
+
 =item B<hyperv>
 
 This is Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor.
@@ -62,10 +68,28 @@ Status: confirmed by RWMJ using a Fedora guest running in z/VM
 
 =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
 
+=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
@@ -95,7 +119,7 @@ Status: contributed by Justin Clift
 
 The guest is running inside IBM PowerVM Lx86 Linux/x86 emulator.
 
-Status: data originally supplied by Jeffrey Scheel, confimed by
+Status: data originally supplied by Jeffrey Scheel, confirmed by
 Yufang Zhang and RWMJ
 
 =item B<qemu>
@@ -113,6 +137,15 @@ 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
@@ -220,6 +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