[chef-dev] Re: improving ohai's awareness of OS 'flavors'

[Blake Irvin < >]

See: http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Managing+Datasets#ManagingDatasets-OSLevelVirtualizationZoneImages

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Blake Irvin < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

"Flavor" is arbitratry.  It could also (and perhaps more accurately) be called "dataset".

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Daniel DeLeo < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Blake Irvin wrote:

Resurrecting this thread a bit, here's what virt detection in ohai looks like right now on a SmartOS host:

  "virtualization": {

    "system": "zone",

    "role": "guest",

    "guest_uuid": "b3ce5ff0-33a5-4fa3-ab7f-8035350bed54"

  },

Would it make sense to extend this a bit, maybe like this?:

  "virtualization": {

    "system": "zone",

    "role": "guest",

    "flavor": "base64-13.1.2"

    "guest_uuid": "b3ce5ff0-33a5-4fa3-ab7f-8035350bed54"

  },

I'm not familiar, what is the "flavor" here describing?

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Daniel DeLeo