Bug 2118997

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #2118195 +++

Currently, CentOS Stream 8 includes virt-what-1.18 with patches up to 1.22. This version outputs nothing when run inside Illumos/SmartOS LX, so virtual machines are incorrectly identified as bare metal.

virt-what 1.24 includes a patch (https://listman.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2022-May/017568.html) to support detecting Illumos/SmartOS LX. Could you update the CentOS Stream 8 package to include that patch (or point me to instructions on how to contribute that package update)?

--- Additional comment from Klaus Heinrich Kiwi on 2022-08-16 12:37:51 UTC ---

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

--- Additional comment from Richard W.M. Jones on 2022-08-16 13:28:12 UTC ---

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.

--- Additional comment from YongkuiGuo on 2022-08-17 02:10:56 UTC ---

(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.

--- Additional comment from Richard W.M. Jones on 2022-08-17 09:33:22 UTC ---

(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).