how determine if kickstarting a virtual host?

[Terry McIntyre]

I am using xen -- got this result:

dmidecode
# dmidecode 2.9
/dev/mem: mmap: Bad address

-- which may be just as good for my purposes.

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Shabazian, Chip
<chip.shabazian at bankofamerica.com> wrote:
> Use dmidecode in the %pre (or %post)
>
> Example, if this is Vmware, the following works:
>
> dmidecode | grep Manufacturer | head -1 | grep VMware
> if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
>        do whatever for vms
> else
>        do whatever not for vms
> fi
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Terry McIntyre
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:59 PM
> To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
> Subject: how determine if kickstarting a virtual host?
>
> I'd like to have kickstart.ks behave differently when running on a
> virtual host.
>
> For example, it makes little sense to start the microcode_ctl service
> on a virtual host; that would be taken care of by the "real" server.
>
> How can I reliably detect this?
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Terry McIntyre
> terry.mcintyre at gmail.com
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Terry McIntyre
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