systemd-detect-virt systemd Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net systemd-detect-virt 1 systemd-detect-virt Detect execution in a virtualized environment systemd-detect-virt OPTIONS Description systemd-detect-virt detects execution in a virtualized environment. It identifies the virtualization technology and can distinguish full VM virtualization from container virtualization. When executed without will print a short identifier for the detected virtualization technology. The following technologies 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 means if both VM virtualization and container virtualization are used in conjunction, only the latter will be identified (unless is passed).
Options The following options are understood: Only detects container virtualization (i.e. shared kernel virtualization). Only detects VM virtualization (i.e. full hardware virtualization). Suppress output of the virtualization technology identifier. Exit status If a virtualization technology is detected, 0 is returned, a non-zero code otherwise. See Also systemd1, systemd-nspawn1