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<refentry id="systemd-detect-virt"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>systemd-detect-virt</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
<firstname>Lennart</firstname>
<surname>Poettering</surname>
<email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
</author>
</authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>systemd-detect-virt</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>systemd-detect-virt</refname>
<refpurpose>Detect execution in a virtualized environment</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>systemd-detect-virt <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg></command>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><command>systemd-detect-virt</command> detects
execution in a virtualized environment. It identifies
the virtualization technology and can distinguish full
VM virtualization from container
virtualization. <filename>systemd-detect-virt</filename>
exits with a return value of 0 (success) if a
virtualization technology is detected, and non-zero
(error) otherwise. By default any type of
virtualization is detected, and the options
<option>--container</option> and <option>--vm</option>
can be used to limit what types of virtualization are
detected.</para>
<para>When executed without <option>--quiet</option>
will print a short identifier for the detected
virtualization technology. The following technologies
are currently identified:</para>
<table>
<title>Known virtualization technologies (both
VM, i.e. full hardware virtualization,
and container, i.e. shared kernel virtualization)</title>
<tgroup cols='3' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
<colspec colname="type" />
<colspec colname="id" />
<colspec colname="product" />
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Type</entry>
<entry>ID</entry>
<entry>Product</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry morerows="8">VM</entry>
<entry><varname>qemu</varname></entry>
<entry>QEMU software virtualization</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>kvm</varname></entry>
<entry>Linux KVM kernel virtual machine</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>zvm</varname></entry>
<entry>s390 z/VM</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>vmware</varname></entry>
<entry>VMware Workstation or Server, and related products</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>microsoft</varname></entry>
<entry>Hyper-V, also known as Viridian or Windows Server Virtualization</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>oracle</varname></entry>
<entry>Oracle VM VirtualBox (historically marketed by innotek and Sun Microsystems)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>xen</varname></entry>
<entry>Xen hypervisor (only domU, not dom0)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>bochs</varname></entry>
<entry>Bochs Emulator</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>uml</varname></entry>
<entry>User-mode Linux</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry morerows="5">container</entry>
<entry><varname>openvz</varname></entry>
<entry>OpenVZ/Virtuozzo</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>lxc</varname></entry>
<entry>Linux container implementation by LXC</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>lxc-libvirt</varname></entry>
<entry>Linux container implementation by libvirt</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>systemd-nspawn</varname></entry>
<entry>systemd's minimal container implementation, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>docker</varname></entry>
<entry>Docker container manager</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<para>If multiple virtualization solutions are used,
only the "innermost" is detected and identified. That
means if both VM virtualization and container
virtualization are used in conjunction, only the latter
will be identified (unless <option>--vm</option> is
passed).</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Options</title>
<para>The following options are understood:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-c</option></term>
<term><option>--container</option></term>
<listitem><para>Only detects container
virtualization (i.e. shared kernel
virtualization).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-v</option></term>
<term><option>--vm</option></term>
<listitem><para>Only detects VM
virtualization (i.e. full hardware
virtualization).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-q</option></term>
<term><option>--quiet</option></term>
<listitem><para>Suppress output of the
virtualization technology
identifier.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Exit status</title>
<para>If a virtualization technology is detected, 0 is
returned, a non-zero code otherwise.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>