the easy usecase to me would be -- to install that package in every
Debian guest, adjust my bash/zsh configuration so if the tool is present
-- embed its output into the prompt. for now I use
/etc/debian_chroot within chroots to alert myself that 'I am not at
home' ;)
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> wrote:
> > So the script is is only expected to tell if the machine it
> > finds itself running in happens to have the signature of a known
> > virtual machine flavour. It is not supposed to determine if it is
> > turtles all the way down.
> Being able to scp that script to a random machine could be handy. But what
> is
> the benefit in having it installed in Debian? Anyone who has problems
> remembering which virtualisation technology is used for each virtual server
> could easily modify /etc/motd to have the full details. The same access
> rights are required for installing a Debian package as for editing /etc/motd.
> One thing that would be handy is a script that runs ssh to connect to a
> server
> and then interrogates it. Such a script would ideally be able to identify
> various versions of BSD and Solaris as well. Including the virt-what
> functionality in such a script would be good.
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