virt: detect Amazon EC2 Nitro instance
Amazon EC2 Nitro hypervisor is technically based on KVM[1], which
systemd-detect-virt identify propely from CPUID. However the lack of
CPUID on aarch64 (A1, T4 instance type) prevents a correct
identification, impacting hostnamectl and systemd-random-seed. Instead
it's possible to identify virtualization from DMI vendor ID.
Prior to this commit:
# hostnamectl
Static hostname: n/a
Transient hostname: ip-10-97-8-12
Icon name: computer
Machine ID:
8e3772fbcfa3dd6f330a12ff5df5a63b
Boot ID:
b7b7e2fe0079448db664839df59f9817
Operating System: Gentoo/Linux
Kernel: Linux 5.4.69-longterm
Architecture: arm64
After this commit:
# hostnamectl
Static hostname: n/a
Transient hostname: ip-10-97-8-12
Icon name: computer-vm
Chassis: vm
Machine ID:
8e3772fbcfa3dd6f330a12ff5df5a63b
Boot ID:
bd04da57084e41078f20541101867113
Virtualization: amazon
Operating System: Gentoo/Linux
Kernel: Linux 5.4.69-longterm
Architecture: arm64
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/