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10 Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
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dfdebb1b 26<refentry id="systemd-detect-virt"
6d0c987d 27 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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28
29 <refentryinfo>
30 <title>systemd-detect-virt</title>
31 <productname>systemd</productname>
32
33 <authorgroup>
34 <author>
35 <contrib>Developer</contrib>
36 <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
37 <surname>Poettering</surname>
38 <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
39 </author>
40 </authorgroup>
41 </refentryinfo>
42
43 <refmeta>
44 <refentrytitle>systemd-detect-virt</refentrytitle>
45 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
46 </refmeta>
47
48 <refnamediv>
49 <refname>systemd-detect-virt</refname>
50 <refpurpose>Detect execution in a virtualized environment</refpurpose>
51 </refnamediv>
52
53 <refsynopsisdiv>
54 <cmdsynopsis>
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55 <command>systemd-detect-virt</command>
56 <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
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57 </cmdsynopsis>
58 </refsynopsisdiv>
59
60 <refsect1>
61 <title>Description</title>
62
63 <para><command>systemd-detect-virt</command> detects execution in
64 a virtualized environment. It identifies the virtualization
9c5baa43 65 technology and can distinguish full machine virtualization from
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66 container virtualization. <filename>systemd-detect-virt</filename>
67 exits with a return value of 0 (success) if a virtualization
b938cb90 68 technology is detected, and non-zero (error) otherwise. By default,
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69 any type of virtualization is detected, and the options
70 <option>--container</option> and <option>--vm</option> can be used
71 to limit what types of virtualization are detected.</para>
72
73 <para>When executed without <option>--quiet</option> will print a
74 short identifier for the detected virtualization technology. The
75 following technologies are currently identified:</para>
76
77 <table>
78 <title>Known virtualization technologies (both
79 VM, i.e. full hardware virtualization,
80 and container, i.e. shared kernel virtualization)</title>
81 <tgroup cols='3' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
82 <colspec colname="type" />
83 <colspec colname="id" />
84 <colspec colname="product" />
85 <thead>
86 <row>
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87 <entry>Type</entry>
88 <entry>ID</entry>
89 <entry>Product</entry>
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90 </row>
91 </thead>
92 <tbody>
93 <row>
aa0c3427 94 <entry valign="top" morerows="10">VM</entry>
6d0c987d 95 <entry><varname>qemu</varname></entry>
5f1c788c 96 <entry>QEMU software virtualization, without KVM</entry>
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97 </row>
98
99 <row>
6d0c987d 100 <entry><varname>kvm</varname></entry>
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101 <entry>Linux KVM kernel virtual machine, with whatever software, except
102 Oracle Virtualbox</entry>
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103 </row>
104
105 <row>
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106 <entry><varname>zvm</varname></entry>
107 <entry>s390 z/VM</entry>
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108 </row>
109
110 <row>
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111 <entry><varname>vmware</varname></entry>
112 <entry>VMware Workstation or Server, and related products</entry>
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113 </row>
114
115 <row>
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116 <entry><varname>microsoft</varname></entry>
117 <entry>Hyper-V, also known as Viridian or Windows Server Virtualization</entry>
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118 </row>
119
120 <row>
6d0c987d 121 <entry><varname>oracle</varname></entry>
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122 <entry>Oracle VM VirtualBox (historically marketed by innotek and Sun Microsystems),
123 for legacy and KVM hypervisor</entry>
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124 </row>
125
126 <row>
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127 <entry><varname>xen</varname></entry>
128 <entry>Xen hypervisor (only domU, not dom0)</entry>
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129 </row>
130
131 <row>
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132 <entry><varname>bochs</varname></entry>
133 <entry>Bochs Emulator</entry>
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134 </row>
135
136 <row>
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137 <entry><varname>uml</varname></entry>
138 <entry>User-mode Linux</entry>
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139 </row>
140
d84248eb 141 <row>
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142 <entry><varname>parallels</varname></entry>
143 <entry>Parallels Desktop, Parallels Server</entry>
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144 </row>
145
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146 <row>
147 <entry><varname>bhyve</varname></entry>
148 <entry>bhyve, FreeBSD hypervisor</entry>
149 </row>
150
798d3a52 151 <row>
055a100d 152 <entry valign="top" morerows="5">Container</entry>
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153 <entry><varname>openvz</varname></entry>
154 <entry>OpenVZ/Virtuozzo</entry>
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155 </row>
156
157 <row>
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158 <entry><varname>lxc</varname></entry>
159 <entry>Linux container implementation by LXC</entry>
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160 </row>
161
162 <row>
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163 <entry><varname>lxc-libvirt</varname></entry>
164 <entry>Linux container implementation by libvirt</entry>
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165 </row>
166
167 <row>
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168 <entry><varname>systemd-nspawn</varname></entry>
169 <entry>systemd's minimal container implementation, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></entry>
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170 </row>
171
172 <row>
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173 <entry><varname>docker</varname></entry>
174 <entry>Docker container manager</entry>
798d3a52 175 </row>
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177 <row>
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178 <entry><varname>rkt</varname></entry>
179 <entry>rkt app container runtime</entry>
9fb16425 180 </row>
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181 </tbody>
182 </tgroup>
183 </table>
184
185 <para>If multiple virtualization solutions are used, only the
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186 "innermost" is detected and identified. That means if both
187 machine and container virtualization are used in
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188 conjunction, only the latter will be identified (unless
189 <option>--vm</option> is passed).</para>
190 </refsect1>
191
192 <refsect1>
193 <title>Options</title>
194
195 <para>The following options are understood:</para>
196
197 <variablelist>
198 <varlistentry>
199 <term><option>-c</option></term>
200 <term><option>--container</option></term>
201
202 <listitem><para>Only detects container virtualization (i.e.
203 shared kernel virtualization).</para></listitem>
204 </varlistentry>
205
206 <varlistentry>
207 <term><option>-v</option></term>
208 <term><option>--vm</option></term>
209
9c5baa43 210 <listitem><para>Only detects hardware virtualization).</para></listitem>
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211 </varlistentry>
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213 <varlistentry>
214 <term><option>-r</option></term>
215 <term><option>--chroot</option></term>
216
217 <listitem><para>Detect whether invoked in a
218 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>chroot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
b938cb90 219 environment. In this mode, no output is written, but the return
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220 value indicates whether the process was invoked in a
221 <function>chroot()</function>
222 environment or not.</para></listitem>
223 </varlistentry>
224
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225 <varlistentry>
226 <term><option>--private-users</option></term>
227
228 <listitem><para>Detect whether invoked in a user namespace. In this mode, no
229 output is written, but the return value indicates whether the process was invoked
230 inside of a user namespace or not. See
231 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>user_namespaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
232 for more information.</para></listitem>
233 </varlistentry>
234
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235 <varlistentry>
236 <term><option>-q</option></term>
237 <term><option>--quiet</option></term>
238
239 <listitem><para>Suppress output of the virtualization
240 technology identifier.</para></listitem>
241 </varlistentry>
242
243 <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
244 <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
245 </variablelist>
246
247 </refsect1>
248
249 <refsect1>
250 <title>Exit status</title>
251
252 <para>If a virtualization technology is detected, 0 is returned, a
253 non-zero code otherwise.</para>
254 </refsect1>
255
256 <refsect1>
257 <title>See Also</title>
258 <para>
259 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
d21be5ff 260 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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261 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>chroot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
262 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>namespaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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263 </para>
264 </refsect1>
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266</refentry>