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6 SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
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8 This file is part of systemd.
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10 Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
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6d0c987d 14 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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16 <refentryinfo>
17 <title>systemd-detect-virt</title>
18 <productname>systemd</productname>
19
20 <authorgroup>
21 <author>
22 <contrib>Developer</contrib>
23 <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
24 <surname>Poettering</surname>
25 <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
26 </author>
27 </authorgroup>
28 </refentryinfo>
29
30 <refmeta>
31 <refentrytitle>systemd-detect-virt</refentrytitle>
32 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
33 </refmeta>
34
35 <refnamediv>
36 <refname>systemd-detect-virt</refname>
37 <refpurpose>Detect execution in a virtualized environment</refpurpose>
38 </refnamediv>
39
40 <refsynopsisdiv>
41 <cmdsynopsis>
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42 <command>systemd-detect-virt</command>
43 <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
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44 </cmdsynopsis>
45 </refsynopsisdiv>
46
47 <refsect1>
48 <title>Description</title>
49
50 <para><command>systemd-detect-virt</command> detects execution in
51 a virtualized environment. It identifies the virtualization
9c5baa43 52 technology and can distinguish full machine virtualization from
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53 container virtualization. <filename>systemd-detect-virt</filename>
54 exits with a return value of 0 (success) if a virtualization
b938cb90 55 technology is detected, and non-zero (error) otherwise. By default,
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56 any type of virtualization is detected, and the options
57 <option>--container</option> and <option>--vm</option> can be used
58 to limit what types of virtualization are detected.</para>
59
60 <para>When executed without <option>--quiet</option> will print a
61 short identifier for the detected virtualization technology. The
62 following technologies are currently identified:</para>
63
64 <table>
65 <title>Known virtualization technologies (both
66 VM, i.e. full hardware virtualization,
67 and container, i.e. shared kernel virtualization)</title>
68 <tgroup cols='3' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
69 <colspec colname="type" />
70 <colspec colname="id" />
71 <colspec colname="product" />
72 <thead>
73 <row>
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74 <entry>Type</entry>
75 <entry>ID</entry>
76 <entry>Product</entry>
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77 </row>
78 </thead>
79 <tbody>
80 <row>
1fdf07f5 81 <entry valign="top" morerows="11">VM</entry>
6d0c987d 82 <entry><varname>qemu</varname></entry>
5f1c788c 83 <entry>QEMU software virtualization, without KVM</entry>
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84 </row>
85
86 <row>
6d0c987d 87 <entry><varname>kvm</varname></entry>
d225fedb 88 <entry>Linux KVM kernel virtual machine, with whatever software, except Oracle Virtualbox</entry>
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89 </row>
90
91 <row>
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92 <entry><varname>zvm</varname></entry>
93 <entry>s390 z/VM</entry>
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94 </row>
95
96 <row>
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97 <entry><varname>vmware</varname></entry>
98 <entry>VMware Workstation or Server, and related products</entry>
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99 </row>
100
101 <row>
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102 <entry><varname>microsoft</varname></entry>
103 <entry>Hyper-V, also known as Viridian or Windows Server Virtualization</entry>
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104 </row>
105
106 <row>
6d0c987d 107 <entry><varname>oracle</varname></entry>
d225fedb 108 <entry>Oracle VM VirtualBox (historically marketed by innotek and Sun Microsystems), for legacy and KVM hypervisor</entry>
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109 </row>
110
111 <row>
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112 <entry><varname>xen</varname></entry>
113 <entry>Xen hypervisor (only domU, not dom0)</entry>
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114 </row>
115
116 <row>
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117 <entry><varname>bochs</varname></entry>
118 <entry>Bochs Emulator</entry>
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119 </row>
120
121 <row>
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122 <entry><varname>uml</varname></entry>
123 <entry>User-mode Linux</entry>
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124 </row>
125
d84248eb 126 <row>
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127 <entry><varname>parallels</varname></entry>
128 <entry>Parallels Desktop, Parallels Server</entry>
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129 </row>
130
1fdf07f5 131 <row>
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132 <entry><varname>bhyve</varname></entry>
133 <entry>bhyve, FreeBSD hypervisor</entry>
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134 </row>
135
136 <row>
137 <entry><varname>qnx</varname></entry>
138 <entry>QNX hypervisor</entry>
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139 </row>
140
798d3a52 141 <row>
055a100d 142 <entry valign="top" morerows="5">Container</entry>
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143 <entry><varname>openvz</varname></entry>
144 <entry>OpenVZ/Virtuozzo</entry>
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145 </row>
146
147 <row>
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148 <entry><varname>lxc</varname></entry>
149 <entry>Linux container implementation by LXC</entry>
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150 </row>
151
152 <row>
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153 <entry><varname>lxc-libvirt</varname></entry>
154 <entry>Linux container implementation by libvirt</entry>
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155 </row>
156
157 <row>
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158 <entry><varname>systemd-nspawn</varname></entry>
159 <entry>systemd's minimal container implementation, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></entry>
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160 </row>
161
162 <row>
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163 <entry><varname>docker</varname></entry>
164 <entry>Docker container manager</entry>
798d3a52 165 </row>
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167 <row>
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168 <entry><varname>rkt</varname></entry>
169 <entry>rkt app container runtime</entry>
9fb16425 170 </row>
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171 </tbody>
172 </tgroup>
173 </table>
174
175 <para>If multiple virtualization solutions are used, only the
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176 "innermost" is detected and identified. That means if both
177 machine and container virtualization are used in
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178 conjunction, only the latter will be identified (unless
179 <option>--vm</option> is passed).</para>
180 </refsect1>
181
182 <refsect1>
183 <title>Options</title>
184
185 <para>The following options are understood:</para>
186
187 <variablelist>
188 <varlistentry>
189 <term><option>-c</option></term>
190 <term><option>--container</option></term>
191
192 <listitem><para>Only detects container virtualization (i.e.
193 shared kernel virtualization).</para></listitem>
194 </varlistentry>
195
196 <varlistentry>
197 <term><option>-v</option></term>
198 <term><option>--vm</option></term>
199
9c5baa43 200 <listitem><para>Only detects hardware virtualization).</para></listitem>
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201 </varlistentry>
202
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203 <varlistentry>
204 <term><option>-r</option></term>
205 <term><option>--chroot</option></term>
206
207 <listitem><para>Detect whether invoked in a
208 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>chroot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
b938cb90 209 environment. In this mode, no output is written, but the return
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210 value indicates whether the process was invoked in a
211 <function>chroot()</function>
212 environment or not.</para></listitem>
213 </varlistentry>
214
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215 <varlistentry>
216 <term><option>--private-users</option></term>
217
218 <listitem><para>Detect whether invoked in a user namespace. In this mode, no
219 output is written, but the return value indicates whether the process was invoked
220 inside of a user namespace or not. See
221 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>user_namespaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
222 for more information.</para></listitem>
223 </varlistentry>
224
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225 <varlistentry>
226 <term><option>-q</option></term>
227 <term><option>--quiet</option></term>
228
229 <listitem><para>Suppress output of the virtualization
230 technology identifier.</para></listitem>
231 </varlistentry>
232
233 <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
234 <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
235 </variablelist>
236
237 </refsect1>
238
239 <refsect1>
240 <title>Exit status</title>
241
242 <para>If a virtualization technology is detected, 0 is returned, a
243 non-zero code otherwise.</para>
244 </refsect1>
245
246 <refsect1>
247 <title>See Also</title>
248 <para>
249 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
d21be5ff 250 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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251 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>chroot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
252 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>namespaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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253 </para>
254 </refsect1>
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256</refentry>