evgeni / virt-who

Agent for reporting virtualization usage to subscription manager.

virt-who

virt-who is agent for reporting virtual guest IDs to subscription manager.

It works either locally or via remote hypervisor. It obtains association between hosts and guests in the given environment (e.g. hypervisor or local system) and then reports it to the subscription manager (SAM, Satellite 5, Satellite 6).

Installation

To just install it use:

# make DESTDIR=/usr install

You can also create rpm package with:

$ make rpm

and then install the package

Supported hypervisors

virt-who can obtain list of guest running on given machine or association between hosts and guests in given virtualization environment.

Backends for reporting list of guest running on given machine:

• libvirt
• vdsm

Backends for reporting hosts to guests association:

• RHEV-M
• VMWare vCenter Server and ESX(i)
• Hyper-V
• Remote libvirt

Supported subscription managers

virt-who can report the guest lists and host/guest associations to following subscription management systems:

• Subscription Asset Manager (SAM)
• Satellite 5
• Satellite 6

Configuration

See the virt-who-config(5) manual page.

Usage

See the virt-who(8) manual page.