From a9d9ad1fa7d528f49ecf9c971f840b5fe135119d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:29:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] man: rework VM/container identifier list into a table, and include descriptions for all entries (also remove chroot from the list, we don't detect that anymore) --- man/systemd-detect-virt.xml | 110 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 98 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/systemd-detect-virt.xml b/man/systemd-detect-virt.xml index d3969e1f82..e167bddd07 100644 --- a/man/systemd-detect-virt.xml +++ b/man/systemd-detect-virt.xml @@ -66,17 +66,102 @@ When executed without will print a short identifier for the detected virtualization technology. The following technologies - are currently identified: qemu, - kvm, vmware, - microsoft (Hyper-V, also known as - Viridian or Windows Server Virtualization), - oracle (VirtualBox), - xen, bochs, - chroot, uml, - openvz, lxc, - lxc-libvirt, - systemd-nspawn, - docker. + are currently identified: + + + Known VM virtualization technologies + + + + + + ID + VM Product + + + + + qemu + QEMU software virtualization + + + kvm + Linux KVM kernel virtual machine + + + + vmware + VMware Workstation or Server, and related products + + + + microsoft + Hyper-V, also known as Viridian or Windows Server Virtualization + + + + oracle + Oracle VM VirtualBox (historically marketed by innotek and Sun Microsystems) + + + + xen + Xen hypervisor + + + + bochs + Bochs Emulator + + + + uml + User-mode Linux + + + + +
+ + + Known container virtualization technologies + + + + + + ID + Container Product + + + + + openvz + OpenVZ/Virtuozzo + + + + lxc + Linux container implementation by LXC + + + + lxc-libvirt + Linux container implementation by libvirt + + + + systemd-nspawn + systemd's minimal container implementation, see systemd-nspawn1 + + + + docker + Docker container manager + + + +
If multiple virtualization solutions are used, only the "innermost" is detected and identified. That @@ -135,7 +220,8 @@ See Also - systemd1 + systemd1, + systemd-nspawn1