Package: virt-what Version: 1.27-1 Severity: normal Hi,
this happens when running a Debian system[1] inside a VirtualBox VM: # virt-what virtualbox kvm virt-what reads /sys/firmware/dmi/tables/DMI to properly identify VirtualBox, but also executes /usr/libexec/virt-what-cpuid-helper, which might report KVMKVMKVM, and therefore reports both of them. FTR: The host system is also Debian/trixie with kernel 6.12.43+deb13-amd64, booted with kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0 and running VirtualBox VM v7.1.12-dfsg-2. The Paravirtualization Interface configuration of the VM is set to "KVM" (with "Hardware Virtualization: [x] Enable Nested Paging"). When changing this setting to "Legacy", virt-what no longer reports both "virtualbox" *and* "kvm", but only "virtualbox". I'm not sure that's really expected behavior, so maybe virt-what should report only "virtualbox" in such a situation? (Maybe execution of /usr/libexec/virt-what-cpuid-helper could get skipped if e.g. VirtualBox was already identified via /sys/firmware/dmi/tables/DMI?) [1] It's reproducible for me with e.g. Grml live ISOs, versions 2025.05 and 2025.08 (see https://grml.org/). regards -mika-
