Landscape vm-info should detect Vmware

[Kevin McDermott]

In addition to detecting kvm and Xen, we should identify Vmware by checking the hardware data...

[Kevin McDermott (bigkevmcd)]

For my own notes...

/sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/sys_vendor looks like the right place to check :-)

[Kevin McDermott (bigkevmcd)]

SELECT str_value, key FROM device_property WHERE device_id IN (SELECT id from device where udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer') AND str_value LIKE 'VMware%' AND key = 'system.hardware.vendor';

Another for my notes :-)

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Verified working in staging.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Hello Kevin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted landscape-client into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Confirmed working in lucid with landscape-client-11.07.1.1-0ubuntu0.10.04.0 with the package from proposed. See attached screenshot.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Thanks for testing!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Kevin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted landscape-client into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Kevin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted landscape-client into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

This was verified by using vmware with the Natty and Maverick packages before they were submitted for this SRU, and I now verified that the same 6 lines of code are in the current proposed packages for Natty and Maverick. Please consider verified.