On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:47:19AM -0700, Daniel Herrington wrote:
> The context is we're doing a data center migration that's going from 
> physical to virtual, and I can't automate my virtual builds unless I 
> know OS bitness (So no black hat work going on...).

If you're setting the bitness of the Virt-CPU, just use x86_64.
It's as fast (or faster), and doesn't limit your server choices.

If you're setting the bitness of the VM's kernel and environment, you need
root shell access to do a good migration anyway.

> Customer wants to limit manual login work on the servers. End result is 
> I know if it's a CentOS or RH, but no idea of services, applications, 
> etc. that might be running.

Customer wants to pretend they know how to do your job better than you do.

Good luck and bill lots of hours, :)
  Aaron
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