[CentOS] CentOS 7.2 installer missing virt-what

Wed Dec 23 23:07:38 UTC 2015
Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>

Once upon a time, Louis Lagendijk <louis at fazant.net> said:
> 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?

This is in the installer itself, specifically in the %pre section of a
kickstart file (to determine which packages to install).  You can't just
"yum install virt-what" there.

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Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>