Re: Bug#538202: ITP: virt-what -- detect if we are running in a virtual machine

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>]

Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26 2009, Mark Allums wrote:
>
> > Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 25 2009, Joe Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > > "Manoj Srivastava" <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> > > > > > Virt-what is more accurate than Imvirt, version 1.0 can tell the
> > > > > > difference between Xen Dom0 and DomU. The new version (1.1, released
> > > > > > on 23 july 2009) can tell the difference between QEMU and KVM, and can
> > > > > > tell if you are running inside a Xen fullvirt guest.
> > > > >        This sounds cool. Does it support user-mode-linux as well?
> > > > At the moment, it can detect VMWare, Microsoft Versions of Virtual PC,
> > > > OpenVZ, Xen-HVM, Xen-DomU, Xen-Dom0, KVM, and QEMU.


> > What about VirtualBox, assuming it survives Oracle?  (Maybe it will;
> > the OSE version is GPL, is it not?)
>
>         What about it?

Does Virt-what detect VirtualBox?  Or will it?

Mark Allums