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hw: detect VM guest via hypervisor CPUID flag, warn on unreliable microcode
Addresses issue #336: when running inside a VM (KVM, VMware, ESXi, Hyper-V, VirtualBox), the hypervisor can present a fake CPUID and microcode version to the guest, making the microcode up-to-date check meaningless or misleading. Changes: - Add is_running_as_guest() to 370_hw_vmm.sh: detects VM guest status by checking for the 'hypervisor' CPUID flag in /proc/cpuinfo, which is exposed by KVM, VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and most other hypervisors. Result is cached in g_is_guest_vm / g_is_guest_vm_reason. - Add "Running as VM guest: YES/NO" line to the CPU details block in check_cpu() (400_hw_check.sh), shown for both x86 and ARM guests. - Add a pr_warn block after the microcode-is-latest check in check_cpu() advising the user to verify microcode information on the hypervisor host when a VM guest is detected. - Add minimal ARM CPU details block in check_cpu(): vendor, model name, implementer(s), part(s), architecture(s), and VM guest status. ARM CPUs previously got no output from check_cpu() due to the x86-only early return guard. - Expose guest VM status in JSON output (250_output_emitters.sh): - system section: guest_vm (bool) and guest_vm_reason (string) - cpu_microcode section: unreliable_in_vm (bool)
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@@ -55,3 +55,21 @@ is_xen_domU() {
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return 1
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fi
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}
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# Check whether the system is running as a guest inside a virtual machine.
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# Uses the 'hypervisor' CPUID feature flag exposed in /proc/cpuinfo by KVM,
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# VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, and most other type-1 and type-2 hypervisors.
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# Returns: 0 if running as a VM guest, 1 otherwise
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# Sets: g_is_guest_vm (1=guest, 0=not a guest), g_is_guest_vm_reason
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is_running_as_guest() {
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if [ "${g_is_guest_vm_cached:-0}" != 1 ]; then
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g_is_guest_vm=0
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g_is_guest_vm_reason=''
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if [ -e "$g_procfs/cpuinfo" ] && grep -qw 'hypervisor' "$g_procfs/cpuinfo" 2>/dev/null; then
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g_is_guest_vm=1
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g_is_guest_vm_reason="'hypervisor' flag in $g_procfs/cpuinfo"
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fi
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g_is_guest_vm_cached=1
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fi
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[ "$g_is_guest_vm" = 1 ]
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}
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