[chef] Re: ohai's virtualization attribute


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  • From: Bryan McLellan < >
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  • Subject: [chef] Re: ohai's virtualization attribute
  • Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:26:59 -0400

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Bryan Berry 
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 wrote:
> What is ohai's virtualization attribute supposed to report?

If we're on a virtualization host or guest.

> Do the paravirtualization drivers entirely hide that the machine is running
> as a guest?

It would appear so?

We detect a VMware guest from the output of 'dmidecode'. Is this
installed? Can you provide the output of 'sudo dmidecode' in a gist or
pastie?

Bryan



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