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24 <refentry id="systemd-detect-virt"
25 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
28 <title>systemd-detect-virt</title>
29 <productname>systemd</productname>
33 <contrib>Developer</contrib>
34 <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
35 <surname>Poettering</surname>
36 <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
42 <refentrytitle>systemd-detect-virt</refentrytitle>
43 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
47 <refname>systemd-detect-virt</refname>
48 <refpurpose>Detect execution in a virtualized environment</refpurpose>
53 <command>systemd-detect-virt <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg></command>
58 <title>Description</title>
60 <para><command>systemd-detect-virt</command> detects execution in
61 a virtualized environment. It identifies the virtualization
62 technology and can distinguish full VM virtualization from
63 container virtualization. <filename>systemd-detect-virt</filename>
64 exits with a return value of 0 (success) if a virtualization
65 technology is detected, and non-zero (error) otherwise. By default
66 any type of virtualization is detected, and the options
67 <option>--container</option> and <option>--vm</option> can be used
68 to limit what types of virtualization are detected.</para>
70 <para>When executed without <option>--quiet</option> will print a
71 short identifier for the detected virtualization technology. The
72 following technologies are currently identified:</para>
75 <title>Known virtualization technologies (both
76 VM, i.e. full hardware virtualization,
77 and container, i.e. shared kernel virtualization)</title>
78 <tgroup cols='3' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
79 <colspec colname="type" />
80 <colspec colname="id" />
81 <colspec colname="product" />
86 <entry>Product</entry>
91 <entry morerows="8">VM</entry>
92 <entry><varname>qemu</varname></entry>
93 <entry>QEMU software virtualization</entry>
97 <entry><varname>kvm</varname></entry>
98 <entry>Linux KVM kernel virtual machine</entry>
102 <entry><varname>zvm</varname></entry>
103 <entry>s390 z/VM</entry>
107 <entry><varname>vmware</varname></entry>
108 <entry>VMware Workstation or Server, and related products</entry>
112 <entry><varname>microsoft</varname></entry>
113 <entry>Hyper-V, also known as Viridian or Windows Server Virtualization</entry>
117 <entry><varname>oracle</varname></entry>
118 <entry>Oracle VM VirtualBox (historically marketed by innotek and Sun Microsystems)</entry>
122 <entry><varname>xen</varname></entry>
123 <entry>Xen hypervisor (only domU, not dom0)</entry>
127 <entry><varname>bochs</varname></entry>
128 <entry>Bochs Emulator</entry>
132 <entry><varname>uml</varname></entry>
133 <entry>User-mode Linux</entry>
137 <entry morerows="5">container</entry>
138 <entry><varname>openvz</varname></entry>
139 <entry>OpenVZ/Virtuozzo</entry>
143 <entry><varname>lxc</varname></entry>
144 <entry>Linux container implementation by LXC</entry>
148 <entry><varname>lxc-libvirt</varname></entry>
149 <entry>Linux container implementation by libvirt</entry>
153 <entry><varname>systemd-nspawn</varname></entry>
154 <entry>systemd's minimal container implementation, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></entry>
158 <entry><varname>docker</varname></entry>
159 <entry>Docker container manager</entry>
165 <para>If multiple virtualization solutions are used, only the
166 "innermost" is detected and identified. That means if both VM
167 virtualization and container virtualization are used in
168 conjunction, only the latter will be identified (unless
169 <option>--vm</option> is passed).</para>
173 <title>Options</title>
175 <para>The following options are understood:</para>
179 <term><option>-c</option></term>
180 <term><option>--container</option></term>
182 <listitem><para>Only detects container virtualization (i.e.
183 shared kernel virtualization).</para></listitem>
187 <term><option>-v</option></term>
188 <term><option>--vm</option></term>
190 <listitem><para>Only detects VM virtualization (i.e. full
191 hardware virtualization).</para></listitem>
195 <term><option>-q</option></term>
196 <term><option>--quiet</option></term>
198 <listitem><para>Suppress output of the virtualization
199 technology identifier.</para></listitem>
202 <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
203 <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
209 <title>Exit status</title>
211 <para>If a virtualization technology is detected, 0 is returned, a
212 non-zero code otherwise.</para>
216 <title>See Also</title>
218 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
219 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>