[systemd-devel] systemd-detect-virt and virtualbox 5.0

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 19.06.15 11:13, Igor Bukanov (igor at mir2.org) wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> forthcoming VirtualBox 5.0 hypervisor (currently at RC1) supports
> paravirtualization using Hyper-V or KVM interfaces. When the latter is
> used with a linux guest then systemd-detect-virt prints kvm. I suppose
> at least the manual page for systemd-detect-virt should be updated to
> indicate that  the command output does not reflect a particular
> implementation but names hupervisor technology.
> 
> However, the issue then is what to do with ConditionVirtualization=
> testing for oracle in unit files. Under kvm mode that gives false
> preventing in my case mounting a host directory with config files
> using vboxsf module. I suppose I should just deal with that and try to
> mount vboxsf share both under kvm and oracle, but perhaps
> systemd-detect-virt should be updated to still print oracle even when
> VirtualBox uses paravirtualization?

Yeah, I am pretty sure we should update src/shared/virt.c then and
ensure we detect the new version correctly.

I am pretty sure there's a way how to discern kvm and vbox5 even then,
it's just a matter of figuring out how.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat