diff --git a/man/systemd-detect-virt.xml b/man/systemd-detect-virt.xml
index d599ac20f1..77bdd80f32 100644
--- a/man/systemd-detect-virt.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-detect-virt.xml
@@ -167,6 +167,11 @@
             <entry><varname>wsl</varname></entry>
             <entry><ulink url="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about">Windows Subsystem for Linux</ulink></entry>
           </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><varname>proot</varname></entry>
+            <entry><ulink url="https://proot-me.github.io/">proot</ulink> userspace chroot/bind mount emulation</entry>
+          </row>
         </tbody>
       </tgroup>
     </table>
diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml
index d0de9aa500..c26937e752 100644
--- a/man/systemd.unit.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml
@@ -1170,6 +1170,7 @@
           <literal>podman</literal>,
           <literal>rkt</literal>,
           <literal>wsl</literal>,
+          <literal>proot</literal>,
           <literal>acrn</literal> to test
           against a specific implementation, or
           <literal>private-users</literal> to check whether we are running in a user namespace. See
diff --git a/src/basic/virt.c b/src/basic/virt.c
index f567696265..c22bcf9aea 100644
--- a/src/basic/virt.c
+++ b/src/basic/virt.c
@@ -441,6 +441,7 @@ static const char *const container_table[_VIRTUALIZATION_MAX] = {
         [VIRTUALIZATION_PODMAN]         = "podman",
         [VIRTUALIZATION_RKT]            = "rkt",
         [VIRTUALIZATION_WSL]            = "wsl",
+        [VIRTUALIZATION_PROOT]          = "proot",
 };
 
 DEFINE_PRIVATE_STRING_TABLE_LOOKUP_FROM_STRING(container, int);
@@ -449,6 +450,7 @@ int detect_container(void) {
         static thread_local int cached_found = _VIRTUALIZATION_INVALID;
         _cleanup_free_ char *m = NULL;
         _cleanup_free_ char *o = NULL;
+        _cleanup_free_ char *p = NULL;
         const char *e = NULL;
         int r;
 
@@ -472,6 +474,22 @@ int detect_container(void) {
                 goto finish;
         }
 
+        /* proot doesn't use PID namespacing, so we can just check if we have a matching tracer for this
+         * invocation without worrying about it being elsewhere.
+         */
+        r = get_proc_field("/proc/self/status", "TracerPid", WHITESPACE, &p);
+        if (r == 0 && !streq(p, "0")) {
+                pid_t ptrace_pid;
+                r = parse_pid(p, &ptrace_pid);
+                if (r == 0) {
+                        const char *pf = procfs_file_alloca(ptrace_pid, "comm");
+                        _cleanup_free_ char *ptrace_comm = NULL;
+                        r = read_one_line_file(pf, &ptrace_comm);
+                        if (r >= 0 && startswith(ptrace_comm, "proot"))
+                                return VIRTUALIZATION_PROOT;
+                }
+        }
+
         if (getpid_cached() == 1) {
                 /* If we are PID 1 we can just check our own environment variable, and that's authoritative.
                  * We distinguish three cases:
@@ -660,6 +678,7 @@ static const char *const virtualization_table[_VIRTUALIZATION_MAX] = {
         [VIRTUALIZATION_PODMAN] = "podman",
         [VIRTUALIZATION_RKT] = "rkt",
         [VIRTUALIZATION_WSL] = "wsl",
+        [VIRTUALIZATION_PROOT] = "proot",
         [VIRTUALIZATION_CONTAINER_OTHER] = "container-other",
 };
 
diff --git a/src/basic/virt.h b/src/basic/virt.h
index 26f409afd0..d58c582c91 100644
--- a/src/basic/virt.h
+++ b/src/basic/virt.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ enum {
         VIRTUALIZATION_PODMAN,
         VIRTUALIZATION_RKT,
         VIRTUALIZATION_WSL,
+        VIRTUALIZATION_PROOT,
         VIRTUALIZATION_CONTAINER_OTHER,
         VIRTUALIZATION_CONTAINER_LAST = VIRTUALIZATION_CONTAINER_OTHER,