Bug 2118195

Not assigning to anyone yet, but maybe Miroslav could give us some pointers here?

We could do this for RHEL 8.7 but it's extremely tight, particularly
for QE to do any testing.  Yongkui what do you think?

Otherwise we'd move it to early in RHEL 8.8 cycle, but that would be
in a few months.

(In reply to Richard W.M. Jones from comment #2)
> We could do this for RHEL 8.7 but it's extremely tight, particularly
> for QE to do any testing.  Yongkui what do you think?
> 
> Otherwise we'd move it to early in RHEL 8.8 cycle, but that would be
> in a few months.

Hi,rjones 

It's ok from the QE side. In that case, the virt-what version (1.24) in RHEL8.7 will be higher than in RHEL9.1.

(In reply to YongkuiGuo from comment #3)
> It's ok from the QE side. In that case, the virt-what version (1.24) in
> RHEL8.7 will be higher than in RHEL9.1.

That will break the upgrade path (LEAPP) so we can't actually do that,
unless we also upgrade virt-what in RHEL 9.1.  We don't have a bug for
that (but bug 2114997 is the latest there).

The gating tests passed on AWS(x86_64 and aarch64), ESXi, Hyper-V, KVM, nested KVM and TCG (https://dashboard.osci.redhat.com/#/artifact/brew-build/aid/47185433).

Test passed on GCE x86_64 env:

[root@wshi-yoguo ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.7 Beta (Ootpa)
[root@wshi-yoguo ~]# rpm -q virt-what
virt-what-1.25-1.el8.x86_64
[root@wshi-yoguo ~]# virt-what
google_cloud
kvm

Steve, please check the packages here fix the problem for you:

http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/bz2118195/virt-what-1.25-1.el8/

Test passed on Nutanix VM:

[root@minl-8 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.7 Beta (Ootpa)
[root@minl-8 ~]# rpm -qa virt-what
virt-what-1.25-1.el8.x86_64
[root@minl-8 ~]# virt-what --version
1.25
[root@minl-8 ~]# virt-what
nutanix_ahv
redhat
kvm

Looks good.  I just tested on CentOS Stream 8 running in a Illumos LX zone on SmartOS build 20220310T212952Z, and the new package correctly identifies that it's virtualized (not bare metal) and correctly identifies the type of virtualization.  Thanks for your work on this.

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Test results:


Old package — ⚠️ identifies virtualization as "lxc", which is an incorrect type, but at least it doesn't claim it's bare metal:

# dnf list installed virt-what
virt-what.x86_64      1.18-13.el8      @baseos
# virt-what
lxc


Latest public package — ❌ incorrectly claims it's bare metal:

# dnf update virt-what
# dnf list installed virt-what
virt-what.x86_64      1.18-14.el8      @baseos
# virt-what
(outputs nothing, indicating bare metal)


Temporary package built for this issue — ✅ correctly identifies the type of virtualization:

# curl -OL http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/bz2118195/virt-what-1.25-1.el8/virt-what-1.25-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
# dnf install virt-what-1.25-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
# dnf list installed virt-what
virt-what.x86_64      1.25-1.el8       @@commandline
# virt-what
illumos-lx

Thanks for testing it.  This should be the new package that appears
in RHEL 8.7 when it is released, assuming no other problems are found.

Verified this bug according to the above test results.

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-2022:7695