You guys basically nailed how I set a hardware type variable when a system is up and running:

# (two tests here help distinguish xen guest from xen host)
elif grep -q '/dev/mem: mmap: Bad address' $TMP && \
     grep -q xen /proc/version ; then
        hardware_type=XenVirtual
elif grep -q 'Product Name: VMware Virtual Platform' $TMP; then
        hardware_type=VmwareVirtual

where $TMP is a file with the output of dmidecode. But I don't know for sure if these will work in a kickstart environment.

I'm also hoping someone will provide a detection suggestion for the case of a fully virtualized KVM guest...

-Ed


Terry McIntyre wrote:
I am using xen -- got this result:

dmidecode
# dmidecode 2.9
/dev/mem: mmap: Bad address

-- which may be just as good for my purposes.

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Shabazian, Chip
<[email protected]> wrote:
Use dmidecode in the %pre (or %post)

Example, if this is Vmware, the following works:

dmidecode | grep Manufacturer | head -1 | grep VMware
if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
       do whatever for vms
else
       do whatever not for vms
fi


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: how determine if kickstarting a virtual host?

I'd like to have kickstart.ks behave differently when running on a
virtual host.

For example, it makes little sense to start the microcode_ctl service
on a virtual host; that would be taken care of by the "real" server.

How can I reliably detect this?

Thanks!

--
Terry McIntyre
[email protected]

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