systemd Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net systemd-detect-virt 1 systemd-detect-virt Detect execution in a virtualized environment systemd-detect-virt OPTIONS 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 --quiet will print a short identifier for the detected virtualization technology. The following technologies are currently identified: qemu, kvm, vmware, microsoft (Hyper-V, also known as Viridian or Windows Server Virtualization), oracle (VirtualBox), xen, bochs, chroot, uml, openvz, lxc, lxc-libvirt, systemd-nspawn, docker. 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 --vm is passed). The following options are understood: -c --container Only detects container virtualization (i.e. shared kernel virtualization). -v --vm Only detects VM virtualization (i.e. full hardware virtualization). -q --quiet Suppress output of the virtualization technology identifier. If a virtualization technology is detected, 0 is returned, a non-zero code otherwise. systemd1