[CentOS] CentOS 7.2 installer missing virt-what

Louis Lagendijk louis at fazant.net
Wed Dec 23 22:54:48 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 13:55 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> In previous CentOS releases, virt-what was included in the install
> image.  This made it easy for me to spin a custom ISO with my package
> set and a kickstart that would add open-vm-tools or ovirt-guest-agent 
> as
> appropriate (when installing the respective guest environments).
> 
> I updated my ISO to 7.2, and virt-what is nowhere to be found.  I
> assume
> this is copied from RHEL; anybody know any explanation?
> 
> For now, I'm falling back to matching strings in
> /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name.  Is there some better way to
> determine
> what (if any) virtual environment the installer is running under?
> 
Just install package virt-what?

# yum provides */virt-what
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * nux-dextop: li.nux.ro
virt-what-1.13-6.el7.x86_64 : Detect if we are running in a virtual
machine
Repo        : base
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/sbin/virt-what



virt-what-1.13-6.el7.x86_64 : Detect if we are running in a virtual
machine
Repo        : @cr
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/sbin/virt-what

BR, Louis




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