btrfs I was on the VPS S SSD at 4 EUR. I know, I know. But their marketing said "dedicated resources" not "dedicated server." I misread, they misled. The ticket escalation is where they started calling it "your dedicated server." Language games.
Language games are terms of service games. OVHcloud 2021, my "dedicated" was 45 EUR. Same trap. "Dedicated resources" means "we do not oversubscribe CPU on this host" in their dictionary. Not "you have a physical machine." I should have parsed like a lawyer.
Trust No One but verify with code. I wrote a small bash thing, checks for vmgenid, checks /sys/hypervisor/type, checks if initrd contains virtio. Want me to paste?
Paste it. Also has anyone checked what systemd-detect-virt returns on these fakes?
#!/bin/bash
echo "=== hypervisor hunt ==="
[ -d /sys/hypervisor ] && cat /sys/hypervisor/type 2>/dev/null
[ -e /sys/devices/virtual/misc/vhost-net ] && echo "vhost-net found"
systemd-detect-virt 2>/dev/null
dmesg | grep -i "hypervisor detected" | tail -3
lsmod | grep -E "virtio|kvm|vbox" | head -5Olespete I ran your script on the "confirmed bare metal" they migrated me to. Systemd-detect-virt returns "none." But vmgenid still exists in /sys/firmware. I am updating my complaint.
Vmgenid on "confirmed bare metal" is game over for them. Document with photos of screen, not copy-paste. They will claim you edited.
I netboot my diagnostics. If the provider PXE boots my image, I control what kernel runs. No fake lscpu possible when I compile the kernel. But most "dedicated" providers do not allow custom PXE. Tells you something.