Jira (FACT-1665) Add support for virtualbox virtualization detection

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Casey Williams (JIRA)

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Facter / Task FACT-1665
Add support for virtualbox virtualization detection
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Created: 2017/06/28 3:59 PM
Priority: Normal Normal
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Casey Williams (JIRA)

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Change By: Casey Williams
Linux: If facter is run as root, it uses virt-what to detect virtualbox via DMI information. Otherwise, it uses lspci output to detect virtualbox.

Windows: via wmi

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

Casey Williams (JIRA)

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Linux: If facter is run as root, it uses virt-what to detect virtualbox via DMI information. Otherwise, it uses lspci output to detect virtualbox.

Windows: via wmi

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


Mac OS: 

Casey Williams (JIRA)

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Linux: If facter is run as root, it uses virt-what to detect virtualbox via DMI information. Otherwise, it uses lspci output to detect virtualbox.

Windows: via wmi

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

Mac OS:    facter uses system_profiler's {{boot_rom_version}}, which should be set to VirtualBox

Branan Riley (JIRA)

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Jul 27, 2017, 2:07:08 PM7/27/17
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Change By: Branan Riley
Fix Version/s: FACT 3.y

Casey Williams (JIRA)

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Re: Add support for virtualbox virtualization detection

I'm marking this as resolved, since it duplicates

FACT-1716 and FACT-1665 .

Gheorghe Popescu (JIRA)

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Change By: Gheorghe Popescu
Release Notes: Not Needed
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