Some Confusion About virt-what

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 04:28:05PM +0800, 韩笑 wrote:
> I've read through the source code of virt-what, there are codes like
> ---- echo "aws" ---- to reveal the virtualization technology of AWS.
> However, when I executed the script, the "aws" string did not come
> out, but there went "xen \n xen-hvm".

Did you run it on an AWS guest?  What flavor of AWS were you using?

> So for what propose this script is designed?

It is supposed to tell you about the underlying hypervisor and/or
cloud, eg. if it's Xen, KVM, AWS, etc.

Rich.

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