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Peter
Asked: 2016-10-27 14:03:27 +0800 CST

Foreman: How to test if the deployment is on Bare Matal or in Libvirt?

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I write a custom Kickstart as a Foreman provisioning template. One of my problems is that I haven't found a way to determine if the new host will be installed on a bare metal or on a Hypervisor. The @host.model works on ESXi hypervisors, but Libvirt reports "Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)"

As a work around, I use this string as libvirt identifier, but, it's not safe and it's a workaround.

So, which parameter should I use to determine if the server will be a virtual one or not?

provisioning libvirt foreman

2 Answers

  1. This will check if the host is linked to a compute resource:

    <% if @host.compute_resource -%>
virtual, on a compute resource
<% else -%>
physical, bare metal
<% end -%>
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  2. You can use the virt-what(1) command to determine if you are on bare-metal or a virtualised environment.

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