Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Tony Mountifield wrote on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:47:04 +0000 (UTC):
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?
AFAIK, VMWare uses vmnet32 drivers for ethernet and possibly others for other devices as well.
indeed.
# modinfo vmxnet filename: /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-486/misc/vmxnet.ko author: VMware, Inc. description: VMware Virtual Ethernet driver. ...
# dmesg |grep -i vmware hdc: VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Vendor: VMware, Model: VMware Virtual S Rev: 1.0 VMware hgfs: HGFS is disabled in the host VMware hgfs: HGFS is disabled in the host VMware memory control driver initialized VMware vmxnet virtual NIC driver
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