Bug#1000396: systemd-detect-virt falsely detects "Microsoft" virtualisation

[Michael Biebl]

On 22.11.21 16:37, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
> Control: tags -1 + upstream
> Hi Liban
> 
> On 22.11.21 14:06, Liban Hannan wrote:
> 
>> systemd-detect-virt checks /sys/class/dmi/id/sys_vendor as part of its
>> attempt to detect if the system is virtualised. I am using a Surface
>> Laptop so sys_vendor returns "Microsoft Corporation" which (as far as I
>> can tell) the program assumes indicates the presence of hyper-v rather
>> than Microsoft produced hardware. One of the consequences is that
>> systemd units that won't run in a VM fail, such as thermald.
> 
> Would you mind forwarding this issue to upstream by filing an issue at 
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues

Afaics, this issue was introduced by
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/506bbc8569014253ea8614b680ccbc4fc2513a87
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