server provider precheck script virt check needs expansion

Bug #1563560 reported by Jeff Lane 
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Provider for Plainbox - Canonical Certification (Legacy)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

The current code for virtualization support in the precheck script is:
#CPU virtualization support (VMX/SVM)
Virtualization_Support(){
name="Virtualization Support"
echoname
cat /proc/cpuinfo |egrep "vmx|svm" >/dev/null
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
 echo " System has virtualization support"
 pass
else
 echo " System does not have virtualization support"
 fail
fi
}

This is fine for x86 based hardware, but doesn't work on non-x86 architectures like Z, Power and ARM.

THis should be changed at some point to use or add support for kvm-ok from cpu-checker (installed with the cert suite) which does work on alternate architectures.

Jeff Lane  (bladernr)
Changed in plainbox-provider-canonical-certification:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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