How to detect a guest system ? Or how to detect which virtualization technology is used by "virt-what" command ?

What is ‘virt-what’ and how is it useful ? Quite often people come to me with a question “how can we know which virtualization hypervisor is used for this guest “? Previously I used to point out couple of options (dmidecode..etc) to check whether it is a Xen guest or kvm guest ..etc. but now …

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