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)

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