In Xen domU, "facter virtual" prints "physical"
Bug #980291 reported by
Sergio Gelato
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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facter (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Bug Description
I've installed precise in virtual machines running on top of the Xen 4.0 hypervisor (with a Debian squeeze dom0).
In both i386 machines (running 3.2.0-23-
The desired answers are "true" and "xenu", respectively.
This is related to upstream issue #2747 but I'm not aware of upstream having found a definitive solution to this problem. I have tested a patch, based on an analysis of the systems I run, and it does the job for me but of course I cannot vouch for its universality. I will be attaching my patch to this bug report.
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