Information about the package, imvirt, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The imvirt package is designed for, Detects several virtualizations.
Package Name:
imvirt
Summary:
Detects several virtualizations
Description:
This little Perl script tries to detect if it is called from within a virtualization container. This is detected by looking for well known boot messages, directories and reading DMI (Desktop Management Interface) data. The following containers are detected: * Virtual PC/Virtual Server * VirtualBox * VMware * QEMU/KVM (experimental) * Xen (para and non-para virtualized) * OpenVZ/Virtuozzo * UML * any HVM providing CPUID 0x40000000 detection
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.9.0
Release:
3.el6
Size:
30 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the imvirt package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install imvirt
This command will install imvirt on the server.
yum remove imvirt
This command will un-install imvirt on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove imvirt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove imvirt
This command will un-install imvirt on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove imvirt when using the -y flag.
yum update imvirt
This command will update imvirt to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove imvirt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update imvirt
This command will update imvirt to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove imvirt when using the -y flag.
yum info imvirt
This command will show you core information about the imvirt package.
yum deplist imvirt
This command will show you the dependencies for imvirt. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update imvirt
This command will check if there is an update waiting on imvirt. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.