execution in a virtualized environment. It identifies
the virtualization technology and can distinguish full
VM virtualization from container
- virtualization.</para>
+ virtualization. <filename>systemd-detect-virt</filename>
+ exits with a return value of 0 (success) if a
+ virtualization technology is detected, and non-zero
+ (error) otherwise. By default any type of
+ virtualization is detected, and the options
+ <option>--container</option> and <option>--vm</option>
+ can be used to limit what types of virtualization are
+ detected.</para>
<para>When executed without <option>--quiet</option>
will print a short identifier for the detected
virtualization technology. The following technologies
- are currently identified: <varname>qemu</varname>,
- <varname>kvm</varname>, <varname>vmware</varname>,
- <varname>microsoft</varname>,
- <varname>oracle</varname>, <varname>xen</varname>,
- <varname>bochs</varname>, <varname>chroot</varname>,
- <varname>uml</varname>,
- <varname>openvz</varname>, <varname>lxc</varname>,
- <varname>lxc-libvirt</varname>,
- <varname>systemd-nspawn</varname>.</para>
+ are currently identified:</para>
+
+ <table>
+ <title>Known virtualization technologies (both
+ VM, i.e. full hardware virtualization,
+ and container, i.e. shared kernel virtualization)</title>
+ <tgroup cols='3' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
+ <colspec colname="type" />
+ <colspec colname="id" />
+ <colspec colname="product" />
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry>Type</entry>
+ <entry>ID</entry>
+ <entry>Product</entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry morerows="8">VM</entry>
+ <entry><varname>qemu</varname></entry>
+ <entry>QEMU software virtualization</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><varname>kvm</varname></entry>
+ <entry>Linux KVM kernel virtual machine</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><varname>zvm</varname></entry>
+ <entry>s390 z/VM</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><varname>vmware</varname></entry>
+ <entry>VMware Workstation or Server, and related products</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><varname>microsoft</varname></entry>
+ <entry>Hyper-V, also known as Viridian or Windows Server Virtualization</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><varname>oracle</varname></entry>
+ <entry>Oracle VM VirtualBox (historically marketed by innotek and Sun Microsystems)</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><varname>xen</varname></entry>
+ <entry>Xen hypervisor (only domU, not dom0)</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><varname>bochs</varname></entry>
+ <entry>Bochs Emulator</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><varname>uml</varname></entry>
+ <entry>User-mode Linux</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry morerows="5">container</entry>
+ <entry><varname>openvz</varname></entry>
+ <entry>OpenVZ/Virtuozzo</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><varname>lxc</varname></entry>
+ <entry>Linux container implementation by LXC</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><varname>lxc-libvirt</varname></entry>
+ <entry>Linux container implementation by libvirt</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><varname>systemd-nspawn</varname></entry>
+ <entry>systemd's minimal container implementation, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><varname>docker</varname></entry>
+ <entry>Docker container manager</entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
<para>If multiple virtualization solutions are used,
only the "innermost" is detected and identified. That
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
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