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+import os
+
+from avocado import Test
+from avocado.core.exit_codes import AVOCADO_ALL_OK
+from avocado.core.job import Job
+from avocado.core.nrunner.runnable import Runnable
+from avocado.core.suite import TestSuite
+
+
+class Distro(Test):
+    """Tests distro detection in containers
+
+    :avocado: dependency={"type": "package", "name": "podman", "action": "check"}
+    """
+
+    def run_job(self, podman_image, output):
+        """Runs an Avocado job on a container, returning the stdout of the one
+        and only runnable executed (equivalent to an "avocado distro" command).
+        """
+        config = {
+            "run.spawner": "podman",
+            "spawner.podman.image": podman_image,
+            "run.results_dir": self.workdir,
+        }
+        runnable = Runnable("exec-test", "python3", "-m", "avocado", "distro")
+        suite = TestSuite("1", config, tests=[runnable])
+        with Job(config, test_suites=[suite]) as job:
+            result = job.run()
+            self.assertEqual(result, AVOCADO_ALL_OK, "Job execution failed")
+
+        stdout_path = os.path.join(job.test_results_path, "1-1-python3", "stdout")
+        with open(stdout_path, "rb") as stdout:
+            self.assertEqual(stdout.read(), output)
+
+    def test_fedora_36(self):
+        """
+        :avocado: dependency={"type": "podman-image", "uri": "registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:36"}
+        """
+        self.run_job(
+            "registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:36",
+            b"Detected distribution: fedora ("
+            + os.uname().machine.encode()
+            + b") version 36 release 0\n",
+        )
+
+    def test_rhel_9_1(self):
+        """
+        :avocado: dependency={"type": "podman-image", "uri": "registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9:9.1"}
+        """
+        self.run_job(
+            "registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9:9.1",
+            b"Detected distribution: rhel ("
+            + os.uname().machine.encode()
+            + b") version 9 release 1\n",
+        )