[CentOS] How to detect whether running on VMware?
Paul Bijnens
paul.bijnens at xplanation.com
Thu Jul 24 12:03:15 UTC 2008
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?
>
>
This paper show some very interesting tricks:
http://handlers.sans.org/tliston/ThwartingVM*Detection*_Liston_Skoudis.pdf
One simple (but not really foolproof, and only for VMWare) is testing
the MAC address, and look at the OUI bytes; these are assigned to VMWare:
00-05-69
00-0C-29
00-1C-14
00-50-56
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