"Dmidecode" reporting a wrong "Family" in System Information on RHV.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When dmidecode -t1 command is run in VMs running on RHV 4.4, it returns Family as Red Hat Enterprise Linux instead of RHV under System Information.

    # dmidecode -t1
Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
    Manufacturer: Red Hat
    Product Name: RHEV Hypervisor
    Version: 7.9-1.el7ev
    Serial Number: 4c4c4544-0057-3610-8059-b4c04f435332
    UUID: ea7df3d8-8662-4b69-9b1d-05c4b9a0ebd1
    Wake-up Type: Power Switch
    SKU Number: Not Specified
    Family: Red Hat Enterprise Linux            <=== here

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.x
  • Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.4

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