Some Confusion About virt-what

[韩笑]

I ran the script on a amzn2-ami-hvm-2.0.20210427.0-x86_64-gp2 instance. Just like what you have described, the result ...



I wish I cloud do something for this script, and add some codes in the project. But testing on the aws instance, the result confused me. I thought there should be "aws" on stdout.
 
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From:  "Richard W.M. Jones"<rjones at redhat.com>;
Date:  Wed, May 26, 2021 05:13 PM
To:  "韩笑"<hanxiaobupt at bupt.edu.cn>; "virt-tools-list"<virt-tools-list at redhat.com>; 

Subject:  Re: Some Confusion About virt-what

 

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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