Landscape Client

aws i3.metal shows up as KVM VM, not baremetal

Bug #1773021 reported by Joshua Powers
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Landscape Client
Confirmed
Medium
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Bug Description

Summary:
Added the new i3.metal AWS instance type [1] to my Landscape and it shows up as a KVM VM and not as a baremetal system. According to AWS these are baremetal systems and not VMs so they should therefore be showing up as metal.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances-with-direct-access-to-hardware/

Expected Result:
No VM Type information

Actual Result:
VM Type: KVM

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch i3.metal on AWS with Xenial daily image
2. Install landscape-client and add to account
3. View machine page or hardware tab and see wrong type

Other:
Feel free to contact me for my Landscape info to view

Revision history for this message
Joshua Powers (powersj) wrote :

This occurs with both Xenial and Bionic

Francis Ginther (fginther)
tags: added: id-5b05dd560239155f0a42e964
Simon Poirier (simpoir)
Changed in landscape-client:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Mitch Burton (mitchburton) wrote :

Some testing on a noble i3.metal instance:

ubuntu@ip-172-31-38-62:~$ sudo dmidecode -s system-manufacturer
Amazon EC2
ubuntu@ip-172-31-38-62:~$ sudo dmidecode | grep Product
 Product Name: i3.metal
 Product Name: Not Specified
ubuntu@ip-172-31-38-62:~$ sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
i3.metal
ubuntu@ip-172-31-38-62:~$ systemd-detect-virt
none
ubuntu@ip-172-31-38-62:~$ sudo virt-what
aws
ubuntu@ip-172-31-38-62:~$ sudo imvirt
Physical

The issue seems to be that VM determination in landscape-client relies solely on the DMI vendor name: https://github.com/canonical/landscape-client/blob/7c312a397897d45c0512a04751f6962e9bce7fb1/landscape/lib/vm_info.py#L64

For i3.metal instances, the vendor name is "Amazon EC2", which is assumed to be KVM. It should be more sophisticated than that.

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