[PATCH V2] detect AWS arm virtual instance as kvm

Frank Liang xiliang at redhat.com
Wed May 25 08:26:35 UTC 2022


Thanks, Daniel

Removed the outdated comments following your suggestion.

Rgs,
Frank

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 4:06 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 02:34:53PM +0800, Frank Liang wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > aws arm virtual instances are running on top of Nitro
> hypervisor(KVM-based
> > hypervisor).
> > I am proposing this patch to keep virt-what output consistent with x86
> > virtual instances.
> > Please review it. Thanks
> >
> > With this patch:
> > $ sudo virt-what
> > kvm
> > aws
> > $ cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name
> > t4g.small
> >
> > Without it:
> > $ sudo virt-what
> > aws
> >
> > Here is the test pass log with this patch.
> > # cat test-suite.log
> > ======================================================
> >    virt-what 1.22: tests/aws-kvm-arm/test-suite.log
> > ======================================================
> >
> > # TOTAL: 1
> > # PASS:  1
> > # SKIP:  0
> > # XFAIL: 0
> > # FAIL:  0
> > # XPASS: 0
> > # ERROR: 0
> >
> > .. contents:: :depth: 2
> >
> > Rgs,
> > Frank
>
> > From 931e5f24b9e7e6e61cebe3213166bd691df80db0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Xiao Liang <xiliang at redhat.com>
> > Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 17:34:52 +0800
> > Subject: [PATCH] detect AWS arm virtual instance as kvm
> >
> > AWS arm virtual instance is KVM based hypervisor.
> > With this patch:
> > $ sudo virt-what
> > kvm
> > aws
> > $ cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name
> > t4g.small
> >
> > Without it:
> > $ sudo virt-what
> > aws
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xiao Liang <xiliang at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  tests/aws-kvm-arm/test.sh | 3 ++-
> >  virt-what.in              | 5 +++++
> >  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tests/aws-kvm-arm/test.sh b/tests/aws-kvm-arm/test.sh
> > index 5d31995..d469a99 100755
> > --- a/tests/aws-kvm-arm/test.sh
> > +++ b/tests/aws-kvm-arm/test.sh
> > @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
> >  output="$(PATH=../..:$PATH virt-what --test-root=. 2>&1)"
> >  # XXX At the moment KVM cannot be detected on this platform.
> >  # We hope to fix that, but for now the only fact printed is "aws".
>
> This comment looks outdated given the change you made
>
> > -expected="aws"
> > +expected="kvm
> > +aws"
> >
> >  if [ "$output" != "$expected" ]; then
> >      echo "$0: test failed because output did not match expected"
> > diff --git a/virt-what.in b/virt-what.in
> > index b59714e..9afbd40 100644
> > --- a/virt-what.in
> > +++ b/virt-what.in
> > @@ -339,6 +339,11 @@ if ! "$skip_qemu_kvm"; then
> >              echo qemu
> >              skip_lkvm=true
> >          fi
> > +        if echo "$dmi" | grep -q 'Amazon EC2' &&
> > +            echo "$dmi" | grep -q 'System is a virtual machine'; then
> > +            echo kvm
> > +            skip_lkvm=true
> > +        fi
> >      elif [ -d ${root}/proc/device-tree/hypervisor ] &&
> >           grep -q "linux,kvm" /proc/device-tree/hypervisor/compatible;
> then
> >          # We are running as a spapr KVM guest on ppc64
> > --
> > 2.36.1
> >
>
>
> With regards,
> Daniel
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