25 Jul
2008
25 Jul
'08
2:22 p.m.
In article 4888ABCA.8000203@calnek.com, Milton Calnek milton@calnek.com wrote:
Tony Mountifield wrote: | Does anyone know how a program, script or shell user can best determine | whether the machine is running on bare metal or is a VMware guest? |
Obviously from the responses many people have a solution... my question is "Why do you care?".
What is it that you would do (or not do) on a vmware guest that you might do on bare metal?
Just trying to understand a 3rd party setup where I was pretty sure one of their hosts was a vmware guest, but they didn't believe it was! (it was set up for them by someone else)
Cheers Tony
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