VMware Workstation 6.5 consolidates the best of desktop virtualization
10-10-2008 11:00 AM
Virtualization software can help you run programs that your native Linux distro wouldn't. While Linux users have many virtualization options, none comes close to the all-encompassing VMware Workstation 6.5. Introduced last month, VMware Workstation 6.5 continues the tradition of outshining and outpacing the competition with a host of useful new features, and boldly goes where no virtualization software has gone before -- into the realm of virtual machines with accelerated 3-D graphics. Despite the advances, some of the new features are still in beta, so Workstation 6.5 might not be the best virtualization option for everyone.
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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)