# Requesting help from the Ansible \*BSD community

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/requesting-help-from-the-ansible-bsd-community/29168>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [November 30, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/requesting-help-from-the-ansible-bsd-community/29168 "2018-11-30T21:25:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![maxamillion](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/maxamillion/32/98_2.png) [@maxamillion](https://forum.ansible.com/u/maxamillion)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/requesting-help-from-the-ansible-bsd-community/29168/1 "2018-11-30T21:25:52Z")

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Hello all,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I don't personally have enough experience with the BSDs to know  
what the correct bit of information to be looking for on the various  
distros is and I was hoping for some help.

> From the Issue Ticket:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Facts virtualization\_role and virtualization\_type are not set for  
KVM guests running FreeBSD, and so cannot be relied on in playlists.  
Live observation indicates that version 2.7.2 is affected. Inspection  
of the devel branch seems to indicate that this and previously  
released versions are also affected.

[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49158](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49158)

I was thinking of querying kern.vm\_guest but I don't know how portable  
that is nor do I know how far back it time that exists in an attempt  
to not break our users who are potentially using older versions of  
their respective BSD flavor.

Thank you!  
-AdamM