# \<operatingsystem\> tags various fields that describe the operating system are missing in rocky linux9

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**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Created:** [August 1, 2022, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/operatingsystem-tags-various-fields-that-describe-the-operating-system-are-missing-in-rocky-linux9/6808 "2022-08-01T11:49:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![byrareddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@byrareddy](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/byrareddy)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/operatingsystem-tags-various-fields-that-describe-the-operating-system-are-missing-in-rocky-linux9/6808/1 "2022-08-01T11:49:17Z")

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operatingsystem are various fields that describe the operating system, its architecture, the descriptive “product name” string, the type of OS and so on missing in rocky linux9.

[https://libguestfs.org/virt-inspector.1.html](https://libguestfs.org/virt-inspector.1.html)

Rocky linux 9:Here we don’t see any info related to operatingsystems  
virt-inspector -a /image/Rocky-9-GenericCloud-9.0-20220706.0.x86\_64.qcow2

```auto
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<operatingsystems/>

```

\<?xml version="1.0"?\>

Rocky linux 8.6:Here we see all the info related to operatingsystems  
[root@7265070ee9f5 /]# virt-inspector -a /image/Rocky-8-GenericCloud-8.6.20220702.0.x86\_64.qcow2

```auto
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<operatingsystems>
  <operatingsystem>
    <root>/dev/sda1</root>
    <name>linux</name>
    <arch>x86_64</arch>
    <distro>redhat-based</distro>
    <product_name>Rocky Linux release 8.6 (Green Obsidian)</product_name>
    <major_version>8</major_version>
    <minor_version>6</minor_version>
    <package_format>rpm</package_format>
    <package_management>dnf</package_management>
    <hostname>localhost.localdomain</hostname>
    <osinfo>redhat-based8.6</osinfo>
    <mountpoints>
      <mountpoint dev="/dev/sda1">/</mountpoint>
    </mountpoints>

```

Size of the rocky 8.6 and 9.0 there is 1G difference.

-rw-r–r-- 1 qemu qemu 2.5G Aug 1 09:48 Rocky-8-GenericCloud-8.6.20220702.0.x86\_64.qcow2  
-rw-rw-r-- 1 qemu qemu 1.5G Aug 1 06:58 Rocky-9-GenericCloud-9.0-20220706.0.x86\_64.qcow2

Which means does embedded os is missing here in the new rocky linux 9 image?  
Why tags various fields that describe the operating system are missing in rocky linux9?

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**Author:** ![neil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/neil/32/34_2.png) [@neil](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/neil)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 1:51am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/operatingsystem-tags-various-fields-that-describe-the-operating-system-are-missing-in-rocky-linux9/6808/2 "2022-08-02T01:51:04Z")

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Hi @byrareddy -

So the reason virt-inspector is unable to detect any information is due to your version of virt-inspector–specifically, the version of osinfo-db underneath. For example, on Fedora 36, I receive the following output from virt-inspector:

```auto
╰─➤ virt-inspector ~/Downloads/isos/Rocky-9-GenericCloud-9.0-20220706.0.x86_64.qcow2 | head
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<operatingsystems>
  <operatingsystem>
    <root>/dev/sda2</root>
    <name>linux</name>
    <arch>x86_64</arch>
    <distro>rocky</distro>
    <product_name>Rocky Linux release 9.0 (Blue Onyx)</product_name>
    <major_version>9</major_version>
    <minor_version>0</minor_version>

```

In time, the new database will become available in Rocky Linux (as well as other places), and virt-inspector will work as you expect it to. In the meantime, you could install a new version of the library or just the database files. I’ve not tested this, but if you put these files into /usr/share/osinfo/os/rockylinux.org/, virt-inspector will likely work for you as you expect, until it’s updated to include the right Rocky versions. Relatedly, @label has been doing some work on osinfo-db to make it a bit smarter in the future.

[https://mirror.potato.shrug.pw/osinfo-latest-rocky.tgz](https://mirror.potato.shrug.pw/osinfo-latest-rocky.tgz)

```auto
╭─<neil@afterman-ascension>─<~>─<9:50PM>─◇
╰─➤ tar -tf osinfo-latest-rocky.tgz
usr/share/osinfo/os/rockylinux.org/
usr/share/osinfo/os/rockylinux.org/rocky-8-unknown.xml
usr/share/osinfo/os/rockylinux.org/rocky-8.4.xml
usr/share/osinfo/os/rockylinux.org/rocky-8.5.xml
usr/share/osinfo/os/rockylinux.org/rocky-9-unknown.xml
usr/share/osinfo/os/rockylinux.org/rocky-9.0.xml
usr/share/osinfo/os/rockylinux.org/rocky-unknown.xml
usr/share/osinfo/os/rockylinux.org/rocky-8.6.xml

```

Best,  
Neil

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**Author:** ![byrareddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@byrareddy](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/byrareddy)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 6:52am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/operatingsystem-tags-various-fields-that-describe-the-operating-system-are-missing-in-rocky-linux9/6808/3 "2022-08-02T06:52:33Z")

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Thanks for the info.Size of the rocky 8.6 and 9.0 there is 1G difference.

-rw-r–r-- 1 qemu qemu 2.5G Aug 1 09:48 Rocky-8-GenericCloud-8.6.20220702.0.x86\_64.qcow2  
-rw-rw-r-- 1 qemu qemu 1.5G Aug 1 06:58 Rocky-9-GenericCloud-9.0-20220706.0.x86\_64.qcow2

Which means does embedded os is missing here in the new rocky linux 9 image or related packages?

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**Author:** ![neil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/neil/32/34_2.png) [@neil](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/neil)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/operatingsystem-tags-various-fields-that-describe-the-operating-system-are-missing-in-rocky-linux9/6808/4 "2022-08-02T14:02:14Z")

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No, the 8.6 image just needs to be sparsified. It is not missing anything.

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**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 3:43am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/operatingsystem-tags-various-fields-that-describe-the-operating-system-are-missing-in-rocky-linux9/6808/5 "2023-08-25T03:43:36Z")

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