[systemd-devel] systemd-detect-virt API

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 1:34 PM Pavla Kratochvilova <pkratoch at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any API for systemd-detect-virt that would provide a way to call
> it from a c++ code?
>
> I need to detect if running in container and "systemd-detect-virt -c" gets
> the job done, but I don't want to call the shell command. I haven't found
> any good way, but maybe I am missing something.
>

I think the only other option is to make a DBus call to systemd – read the
"org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager.Virtualization" property at
/org/freedesktop/systemd1.

(This would also avoid permission problems in case any detection methods
require root.)

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Mantas Mikulėnas
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