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Detect virtualization in bash

One of my commands in my bash script will depend on the virtualization of the server (XEN or OpenVZ or KVM ). How can I check which of these is in use in bash?

Solution

  • I found a small shell script that is able to detect virtualization and it handles Xen,OpenVZ,KVM,Parallels, Vmware and many more

    virt-what

    Installation with yum is pretty straight forward

    Here is the output on my system

    $ virt-what
kvm