Xen (paravirtualized) hosts do not set the virtualiztion bit.

However, some (or all) hypervisors set the "hypervisor" flags
so we could rely on that if the first check fails.

Thanks to Robert Möker for pointing that out.

diff --git a/fireinfo/hypervisor.py b/fireinfo/hypervisor.py
index 97eb985f55a26c881b2ca0b053afc9fc04208fab..328fd26927799da505771514fb5342fdcf28a8ff 100644 (file)
--- a/fireinfo/hypervisor.py
+++ b/fireinfo/hypervisor.py
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ class Hypervisor(object):
                        Returns true if the host is running in a virtual environment.
                        Otherwise: false.
                """
-               return _fireinfo.is_virtualized()
+               return _fireinfo.is_virtualized() or \
+                       "hypervisor" in self.system.cpu.flags
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":