Sorry to hijack this topic, but I am having an issue and tried to post a topic earlier, but it's not showing up.
On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 6:21:58 PM UTC-6, Simon Wydooghe wrote: > > Thanks for the reply, Kai. I did notice those variables, however they just > list 'NA' for a simple desktop I have here. Anyway, thanks to your tip I > had a quick browse through the facts source code, and if the machine was > any type of guest, it seems it would definitely get picked up. So I think > it's fairly safe to say that 'NA' can be presumed to be a bare metal > machine which solves my problem as far as I am concerned! > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Kai Stian Olstad <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On 07. feb. 2017 19:15, Simon Wydooghe wrote: >> >>> Does anyone have a suggestion on how to detect whether a machine is a >>> bare >>> metal one or a virtual one using the existing Ansible facts? In Puppet >>> there was a 'physical' boolean which could be used, but going through the >>> Ansible facts of an example host here, I can't quite figure out >>> something I >>> can use. Am I missing something? I could of course write my own fact, but >>> I'd like to check here to see if that can be avoided. >>> >> >> You have ansible_virtualization_role, host or guest. >> >> If you would like to find out which hypervisor you can check the >> ansible_virtualization_type. >> >> >> -- >> Kai Stian Olstad >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/YtIU-mRFeIE/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/b617a8d7-5eae-a0a7-c585-71be3af1e82e%40olstad.com >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/5d009c23-322b-488e-a295-d6f22dd29ad2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
