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  1. Bug #1414153
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1414153

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Chris J Arges (arges) wrote :

#!/bin/bash
# 2015 Chris J Arges <email address hidden>
# Detect if we are running inside KVM
NESTED_VM=0
VM_STRINGS="KVM QEMU VMware VirtualBox Xen"
VM_DETECT=$(dmesg | egrep -e '(Hypervisor detected|Booting paravirtualized kernel)')
VM_DMIDECODE=$(sudo dmidecode | egrep -i 'manufacturer|product|vendor')
for vm_string in $VM_STRINGS; do
  if [[ ${VM_DETECT}${VM_DMIDECODE} == *"${vm_string}"* ]]; then
    NESTED_VM=1; break;
  fi
done
echo "NESTED_VM = $NESTED_VM"