Jira (FACT-1664) Add support for vmware virtualization detection

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Facter / FACT-1664 Add support for vmware virtualization detection Issue Type: Task Assignee: Casey Williams Created: 2017/06/28 3:58 PM Priority: Normal Reporter: Casey Williams Add Comment

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[Casey Williams (JIRA)]

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Facter / FACT-1664 Add support for vmware virtualization detection

Change By: Casey Williams Facter currently uses the vmware executable to figure this out, which seems adequate.

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[Casey Williams (JIRA)]

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Facter / FACT-1664 Add support for vmware virtualization detection Change By: Casey Williams

Facter Linux: when run as root, facter  currently  uses  detects vmware with virt-what, which can find it via 1)  the  cpuid instruction or 2) the DMI manufacturer. Without root, facter will use the {{  vmware }}  executable to figure this out . If that somehow fails ,  which seems adequate  it can detect vmware via tha product_name fact (DMI) as well . Solaris: facter runs /usr/sbin/prtdiag and attempts to match several product names (including vmware) to each line of output until it finds something useful. Windows: via wmi Mac OS: facter looks for vmware in the the sp_machine_model fact

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[Casey Williams (JIRA)]

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Facter / FACT-1664 Add support for vmware virtualization detection Change By: Casey Williams

Linux: when run as root, facter currently detects vmware with virt-what, which can find it via 1) the cpuid instruction or 2) the DMI manufacturer. Without root, facter will use the {{vmware}} executable to figure this out. If that somehow fails, it can detect vmware via  tha  the  product_name fact (DMI) as well. Solaris: facter runs  {{  /usr/sbin/prtdiag }}  and attempts to match several product names (including vmware) to each line of output until it finds something useful.

Windows: via wmi Mac OS: facter looks for vmware in the the sp_machine_model fact

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[Casey Williams (JIRA)]

Casey Williams updated an issue

Facter / FACT-1664 Add support for vmware virtualization detection Change By: Casey Williams

Linux: when run as root, facter currently detects vmware with virt-what, which can find it via 1) the cpuid instruction or 2) the DMI manufacturer. Without root, facter will use the {{vmware}} executable to figure this out. If that somehow fails, it can detect vmware via the product_name fact (DMI) as well.

Solaris: facter runs {{/usr/sbin/prtdiag}} and attempts to match several product names (including vmware) to each line of output until it finds something useful. Windows: via wmi

Mac OS: facter looks for vmware in the the  {{  sp_machine_model }}  fact  (which itself comes from system_profiler's {{model_identifier}})

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[Branan Riley (JIRA)]

Branan Riley updated an issue

Facter / FACT-1664 Add support for vmware virtualization detection

Change By: Branan Riley Fix Version/s: FACT 3.y

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[Casey Williams (JIRA)]

Casey Williams updated an issue

Facter / FACT-1664 Add support for vmware virtualization detection

Change By: Casey Williams

Linux: when run as root, facter currently detects vmware with virt-what, which can find it via 1) the cpuid instruction or 2) the DMI manufacturer. Without root, facter will use the {{vmware}} executable to figure this out. If that somehow fails, it can detect vmware via the product_name fact (DMI) as well. Solaris: facter runs {{/usr/sbin/prtdiag}} and attempts to match several product names (including vmware) to each line of output until it finds something useful. Windows: via wmi Mac OS: facter looks for vmware in the the {{sp_machine_model}} fact (which itself comes from system_profiler's {{model_identifier}})

[This repo|https://github.com/DE-IBH/imvirt/blob/master/helper/vmware.c] has a great example of how to detect the product name (ESXi, Workstation, etc), which looks like it does a better job than the current VMware detector as built for FACT-1717. I think it might be nice to split out the product name and version as separate pieces of metadata, like this tool does.

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[Gheorghe Popescu (JIRA)]

Gheorghe Popescu updated an issue

Facter / FACT-1664 Add support for vmware virtualization detection

Change By: Gheorghe Popescu Release Notes: Not Needed

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