Bug 2074476

Summary:	RFE: Add guest detection for RHEL hypervisors
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Stephen Tweedie <sct>
Component:	virt-what	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	YongkuiGuo <yoguo>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	9.0	CC:	djuarezg, minl, qzhang, rjones, virt-maint, wshi, xiliang, ymao, yoguo
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature, Triaged
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	virt-what-1.22-1.el9	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Clones:	2076628 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2022-11-15 11:12:59 UTC	Type:	Feature Request
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Description Stephen Tweedie 2022-04-12 10:13:05 UTC

Description of problem:
The CCSP Cloud Certification suite would like a supported, standard way to determine that a RHEL guest is running on a RHEL hypervisor, in order to determine that we are running on a certified host.

This ability has been added to virt-what upstream in commit

http://git.annexia.org/?p=virt-what.git;a=commitdiff;h=b64df398779db07d008781c96685878795bcfd67

We would like this back-ported to RHEL-9.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-what-1.21-2.el9.2


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. On a RHEL guest on a RHEL hypervisor, run:
   $ sudo virt-what


Actual results:
kvm


Expected results:
redhat
kvm

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2022-04-14 13:27:44 UTC

This is also available as updates to Fedora 35-37 if you want to try it there:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-84347c3e67
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-0371db51d4
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-a664f389d5

Comment 3 YongkuiGuo 2022-04-15 10:50:25 UTC

Tested with virt-what-1.22-1.el9.x86_64:

On KVM:
[root@rhel9-1-virt-what home]# virt-what
redhat
kvm

On nested KVM:
[root@localhost ~]# virt-what
redhat
kvm

On TCG:
[root@localhost ~]# virt-what
redhat
qemu

Notes: tier1 gating tests also passed on AWS(including Xen, KVM, Bare Metal), ESXi, Hyper-V(https://dashboard.osci.redhat.com/#/artifact/brew-build/aid/44637584).

Comment 6 YongkuiGuo 2022-06-16 02:39:41 UTC

Verified this bug per comment 3.

Comment 7 minl 2022-06-16 06:32:44 UTC

Verified on Nutanix(guest: RHEL-8.7.0-20220614.0, RHEL-9.1.0-20220612.2):

# virt-what
nutanix_ahv
redhat
kvm

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 11:12:59 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (virt-what bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:8282