Comment 2 for bug 1300899

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Matt Bruzek (mbruzek) wrote :

I found a possible way to detect if you are running in LXC.

sudo cat /proc/1/environ
container=lxc

On my laptop the same command reports

$ sudo cat /proc/1/environ
HOME=/init=/sbin/initrecovery=TERM=linuxBOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-19-genericPATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/binPWD=/rootmnt=/root

On the Power KVM machine wolfe-01 it reports:
sudo cat /proc/1/environ
HOME=/init=/sbin/initrecovery=TERM=linuxBOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinux-3.13.0-19-genericPATH=/sbin:│/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/binPWD=/rootmnt=/root