Avoid putting virtualization option when in Xen or VMware. (#443373)

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/iutil.py b/iutil.py
index 2483e0c56..9ce05b89f 100644
--- a/iutil.py
+++ b/iutil.py
@@ -527,3 +527,20 @@ def writeRpmPlatform(root="/"):
         f.write("%_prefer_color   1\n")
 
     f.close()
+
+## Check to see if we are in a xen environment.
+#
+def inXen():
+    if os.path.exists("/proc/xen"):
+        return True
+    return False
+
+## Check to see if we are in a vmware environment.
+#
+def inVmware():
+    lspci = ["/usr/sbin/lspci", "-vvv"] # only the very verbose show the VMware stuff :)
+    proc = subprocess.Popen(lspci, stdout = subprocess.PIPE)
+    (out, err) = proc.communicate()
+    if "VMware" in out:
+        return True
+    return False