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In Xen domU, "facter virtual" prints "physical"

Bug #980291 reported by Sergio Gelato
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facter (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I've installed precise in virtual machines running on top of the Xen 4.0 hypervisor (with a Debian squeeze dom0).
In both i386 machines (running 3.2.0-23-generic-pae #36-Ubuntu) and amd64 machines (with 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu), "facter is_virtual" prints out "false" and "facter virtual" prints out "physical".

The desired answers are "true" and "xenu", respectively.

This is related to upstream issue #2747 but I'm not aware of upstream having found a definitive solution to this problem. I have tested a patch, based on an analysis of the systems I run, and it does the job for me but of course I cannot vouch for its universality. I will be attaching my patch to this bug report.

Tags: patch precise
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Sergio Gelato (sergio-gelato) wrote :
tags: added: precise
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tags: added: patch
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James Page (james-page) wrote :

Also reported upstream - see http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/10625

Changed in facter (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package facter - 1.6.9-2ubuntu1

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facter (1.6.9-2ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #1007560). Remaining changes:
    - debian/rules:
      + use what we had in natty; we don't want ruby-pkg-tools
         in main. (LP: #408402)
      + Use dh_prep instead of dh_clean, add build-arch + build-indep targets
    - debian/control:
      + Continue using ruby + libopenssl-ruby as Build-Depends even tho Debian
        has moved to gem2deb (not in main). Move ruby-json to Suggests.
      + Make binary package depend on ruby1.8 explicitly
  * debian/patches/ubuntu_xen_print_virtual.patch: correctly detect
    xen0,xenu. (LP: #980291)

facter (1.6.9-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add patch from upstream (b050eb1) to ignore LSB noise

facter (1.6.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release

facter (1.6.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Imported Upstream version 1.6.8

facter (1.6.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Imported Upstream version 1.6.7
  * Bump standards version (no changes)

facter (1.6.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
 -- Andres Rodriguez <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:51:28 -0400

Changed in facter (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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