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man: rework VM/container identifier list into a table, and include descriptions for all entries 

(also remove chroot from the list, we don't detect that anymore)
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Lennart Poettering 2014-10-10 12:29:08 +02:00
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<para>When executed without <option>--quiet</option>
will print a short identifier for the detected
virtualization technology. The following technologies
are currently identified: <varname>qemu</varname>,
<varname>kvm</varname>, <varname>vmware</varname>,
<varname>microsoft</varname> (Hyper-V, also known as
Viridian or Windows Server Virtualization),
<varname>oracle</varname> (VirtualBox),
<varname>xen</varname>, <varname>bochs</varname>,
<varname>chroot</varname>, <varname>uml</varname>,
<varname>openvz</varname>, <varname>lxc</varname>,
<varname>lxc-libvirt</varname>,
<varname>systemd-nspawn</varname>,
<varname>docker</varname>.</para>
are currently identified:</para>
<table>
<title>Known VM virtualization technologies</title>
<tgroup cols='2' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
<colspec colname="id" />
<colspec colname="product" />
<thead>
<row>
<entry>ID</entry>
<entry>VM Product</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry><varname>qemu</varname></entry>
<entry>QEMU software virtualization</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>kvm</varname></entry>
<entry>Linux KVM kernel virtual machine</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>vmware</varname></entry>
<entry>VMware Workstation or Server, and related products</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>microsoft</varname></entry>
<entry>Hyper-V, also known as Viridian or Windows Server Virtualization</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>oracle</varname></entry>
<entry>Oracle VM VirtualBox (historically marketed by innotek and Sun Microsystems)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>xen</varname></entry>
<entry>Xen hypervisor</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>bochs</varname></entry>
<entry>Bochs Emulator</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>uml</varname></entry>
<entry>User-mode Linux</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<table>
<title>Known container virtualization technologies</title>
<tgroup cols='2' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
<colspec colname="id" />
<colspec colname="product" />
<thead>
<row>
<entry>ID</entry>
<entry>Container Product</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry><varname>openvz</varname></entry>
<entry>OpenVZ/Virtuozzo</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>lxc</varname></entry>
<entry>Linux container implementation by LXC</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>lxc-libvirt</varname></entry>
<entry>Linux container implementation by libvirt</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>systemd-nspawn</varname></entry>
<entry>systemd's minimal container implementation, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>docker</varname></entry>
<entry>Docker container manager</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<para>If multiple virtualization solutions are used,
only the "innermost" is detected and identified. That
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<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>