IMVIRT(1) General Commands Manual IMVIRT(1)NAME
imvirt - detects several virtualizations
SYNOPSIS
imvirt
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the imvirt script. imvirt tries to detect if it runs on a physical machine or on a virtualized one. If
it detects that it is a virtualized one it also tries to find out which virtualization technology is used.
USAGE
imvirt does not need any arguments. But there is at the moment a restriction if you do not call this script with the administrative root
user, because imvirt also uses dmidecode to determine the used virtualization technology. dmidecode itself needs root privileges to accesss
/dev/mem. So on you have to wrap imvirt with sudo if you want to detect every virtualization technology.
SEE ALSO dmidecode(8)AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Patrick Matthai <patrick.matthaei@web.de> for imvirt. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or
modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Founda-
tion.
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SYSTEMD-DETECT-VIRT(1) systemd-detect-virt SYSTEMD-DETECT-VIRT(1)NAME
systemd-detect-virt - Detect execution in a virtualized environment
SYNOPSIS
systemd-detect-virt [OPTIONS...]
DESCRIPTION
systemd-detect-virt detects execution in a virtualized environment. It identifies the virtualization technology and can distinguish full
machine virtualization from container virtualization. systemd-detect-virt 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 --container and
--vm can be used to limit what types of virtualization are detected.
When executed without --quiet will print a short identifier for the detected virtualization technology. The following technologies are
currently identified:
Table 1. Known virtualization technologies (both VM, i.e. full hardware virtualization, and container, i.e. shared kernel virtualization)
+----------+----------------+--------------------------------------+
|Type | ID | Product |
+----------+----------------+--------------------------------------+
|VM | qemu | QEMU software virtualization, |
| | | without KVM |
| +----------------+--------------------------------------+
| | kvm | Linux KVM kernel virtual machine, |
| | | with whatever software, except |
| | | Oracle Virtualbox |
| +----------------+--------------------------------------+
| | zvm | s390 z/VM |
| +----------------+--------------------------------------+
| | vmware | VMware Workstation or Server, and |
| | | related products |
| +----------------+--------------------------------------+
| | microsoft | Hyper-V, also known as Viridian or |
| | | Windows Server Virtualization |
| +----------------+--------------------------------------+
| | oracle | Oracle VM VirtualBox (historically |
| | | marketed by innotek and Sun |
| | | Microsystems), |
| | | for legacy and KVM |
| | | hypervisor |
| +----------------+--------------------------------------+
| | xen | Xen hypervisor (only domU, not dom0) |
| +----------------+--------------------------------------+
| | bochs | Bochs Emulator |
| +----------------+--------------------------------------+
| | uml | User-mode Linux |
| +----------------+--------------------------------------+
| | parallels | Parallels Desktop, Parallels Server |
| +----------------+--------------------------------------+
| | bhyve | bhyve, FreeBSD hypervisor |
+----------+----------------+--------------------------------------+
|Container | openvz | OpenVZ/Virtuozzo |
| +----------------+--------------------------------------+
| | lxc | Linux container implementation by |
| | | LXC |
| +----------------+--------------------------------------+
| | lxc-libvirt | Linux container implementation by |
| | | libvirt |
| +----------------+--------------------------------------+
| | systemd-nspawn | systemd's minimal container |
| | | implementation, see systemd- |
| | | nspawn(1) |
| +----------------+--------------------------------------+
| | docker | Docker container manager |
| +----------------+--------------------------------------+
| | rkt | rkt app container runtime |
+----------+----------------+--------------------------------------+
If multiple virtualization solutions are used, only the "innermost" is detected and identified. That means if both machine and container
virtualization are used in conjunction, only the latter will be identified (unless --vm is passed).
OPTIONS
The following options are understood:
-c, --container
Only detects container virtualization (i.e. shared kernel virtualization).
-v, --vm
Only detects hardware virtualization).
-r, --chroot
Detect whether invoked in a chroot(2) environment. In this mode, no output is written, but the return value indicates whether the
process was invoked in a chroot() environment or not.
--private-users
Detect whether invoked in a user namespace. In this mode, no output is written, but the return value indicates whether the process was
invoked inside of a user namespace or not. See user_namespaces(7) for more information.
-q, --quiet
Suppress output of the virtualization technology identifier.
-h, --help
Print a short help text and exit.
--version
Print a short version string and exit.
EXIT STATUS
If a virtualization technology is detected, 0 is returned, a non-zero code otherwise.
SEE ALSO systemd(1), systemd-nspawn(1), chroot(2), namespaces(7)systemd 237SYSTEMD-DETECT-VIRT(1)