# ‘virt-what’ is still missing in Rocky 8.6 LiveOS installer image

**URL:** <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/virt-what-is-still-missing-in-rocky-8-6-liveos-installer-image/6146>\
**Category:** Infrastructure\
**Created:** [May 24, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/virt-what-is-still-missing-in-rocky-8-6-liveos-installer-image/6146 "2022-05-24T18:16:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![kstmp001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f04885/32.png) [@kstmp001](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/kstmp001)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/virt-what-is-still-missing-in-rocky-8-6-liveos-installer-image/6146/1 "2022-05-24T18:16:19Z")

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The ‘virt-what’ utility is still missing in the LiveOS installer image for RL 8.6 (and 8.5), yet RHEL 8.5 & 8.6 (and 9.0) still have it. And, it was in RL 8.4. Why is it excluded in the last two RL releases?

For RHEL it is located on the DVD ISO image as: /images/install.img \> /LiveOS/rootfs.img \> /usr/sbin/virt-what’

I first reported this for RL 8.5 here:

> [@'virt-what' script is missing from the Rocky 8.5 installer shell](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/virt-what-script-is-missing-from-the-rocky-8-5-installer-shell/5236):
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> Hi every one, Firstly, as this is my first post, I want to convey a huge thank you to the Rocky Linux team for making this distribution possible! I have been migrating my kickstart scripts from RHEL 8 to Rocky Linux 8.5 and discovered that the ‘virt-what’ script is missing in the installer shell. Normally its location is ‘/sbin/virt-what’, but it is not found anywhere. Note that the script does exist in the Rocky 8.4 DVD ISO image and it exists in the RHEL 8.5 distro ISO image as well and is…

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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, 3:48am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/virt-what-is-still-missing-in-rocky-8-6-liveos-installer-image/6146/2 "2023-08-25T03:48:51Z")

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