Re: [CentOS] How to detect whether running on VMware?

Marc-Andre Levesque wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tony Mountifield

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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?

Cheers Tony

This script does the trick for me on ESX 3 by looking at the (virtual) hardware description. But it probably is not foolproof.

if ( `/sbin/lspci | grep -qi vmware` ) || \ ( `grep -qi vmware /proc/scsi/scsi` ); then echo "This is a Virtual Machine." Fi

Marc-Andre

Alternatively, grep the output from dmidecode for VMware:

dmidecode | grep VMware

You'll get output from VMware Server, I've not tested with other VMware products.