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authorTim Smith <tsmith@chef.io>2018-12-05 14:38:21 -0800
committerTim Smith <tsmith@chef.io>2018-12-05 14:38:21 -0800
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Pull in the latest Ohai 14 release notes
Signed-off-by: Tim Smith <tsmith@chef.io>
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## Ohai 14.8
-### openSUSE 15
+### Improved Virtualization Detection
-Ohai now properly detects the openSUSE 15.X platform.
+#### Hyper-V Hypervisor Detection
-### Hyper-V Hypervisor Detection
-
-Detection of Linux guests running on Hyper-V has been improved. In addition, Linux guests on Hyper-V hypervisors will also now detect their hypervisor's hostname.
+Detection of Linux guests running on Hyper-V has been improved. In addition, Linux guests on Hyper-V hypervisors will also now detect their hypervisor's hostname. Thank you [@safematix](https://github.com/safematix) for contributing this enhancement.
Example `node['virtualization']` data:
```json
@@ -58,6 +56,24 @@ Example `node['virtualization']` data:
}
```
+#### LXC / LXD Detection
+
+On Linux systems running lxc or lxd containers, the lxc/lxd virtualization system will now properly populate the `node['virtualization']['systems']` attribute.
+
+
+#### BSD Hypervisor Detection
+
+BSD-based systems can now detect guests running on KVM and Amazon's hypervisor without the need for the dmidecode package.
+
+### New Platform Support
+
+- Ohai now properly detects the openSUSE 15.X platform. Thank you [@megamorf](https://github.com/megamorf) for reporting this issue.
+- Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop now identified as platform_family 'suse'
+- XCP-NG is now identified as platform 'xcp' and platform_family 'rhel'. Thank you [@heyjodom](http://github.com/heyjodom) for submitting this enhancement.
+- Mangeia Linux is now identified as platform 'mangeia' and platform_family 'mandriva'
+- Antergos Linux now identified as platform_family 'arch'
+- Manjaro Linux now identified as platform_family 'arch'
+
## Security Updates
### OpenSSL