[systemd-devel] systemd-detect-virt and vendors

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
wrote:

>
> I think what would make a lot of sense though is to add a section to
> the man page somewhere, that explains which ID refers to which
> software from which vendor. Also, it might make sense to add a new
> switch to the tool, that dumps the table of known identifiers plus
> some description.
>

Fair enough.  I will see if I can do that.  Would it be ok to add
appropriate aliases to existing terms, virtualbox - oracle and hyperv -
microsoft and mark the vendor names as deprecated?  That way we retain
compatibility while having the consistency (this is more than just about
being pretty!) that everything is named after the technology and not the
mismash of vendors names (oracle, microsoft) and technology names (kvm...)
in a list.  I will write up some patches to see if I can implement this
cleanly and we will see how it goes.

Rahul
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