Issue #9059 has been reported by Thomas Lee.
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Bug #9059: Facter v1.5.9 incorrectly identifies VMware Server host as a VM
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/9059
Author: Thomas Lee
Status: Unreviewed
Priority: Normal
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Target version:
Keywords: vmware vmware_server virtual is_virtual
Branch:
Affected Facter version: 1.5.9
I searched through the existing issues and couldn't find this one, so please
forgive me if I'm just not using the bug tracker correctly, which is quite
possible.
I've got machines running VMware Server 1.0.10-203137 on Redhat Enterprise
Linux 5.7. One of them was installed a few months ago and has Facter 1.5.7,
but the newer one, installed last week, has Facter 1.5.9 (both are from EPEL,
but one hasn't been updated recently). Oddly, though, Facter 1.5.7 correctly
gives `is_virtual => false`, while Facter 1.5.9 gives me `is_virtual => true`.
I think the difference is near the end of
`/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/virtual.rb`, when deciding what to output
for `is_virtual` based on the value of `virtual`.
v1.5.7, line 74:
case Facter.value(:virtual)
when "xenu", "openvzve", "vmware"
true
else
false
end
v1.5.9, line 115:
if Facter.value(:virtual) != "physical" && Facter.value(:virtual) !=
"xen0"
"true"
else
"false"
end
In both cases `virtual => 'vmware_server'`. However, while the above code from
Facter v1.5.7 correctly returns false in this case, the v1.5.9 code doesn't
take vmware_server into account and returns true because `virtual` is neither
"physical" nor "xen0". I might suggest an addition of `&&
Facter.value(:virtual) != "vmware_server"`, but there might be a better way to
do this; I'm not an expert in the ins and outs of Facter's code.
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