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

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <48886F83.6090707 at xplanation.com>,
Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens at xplanation.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?
> >
> >   
> 
> This paper show some very interesting tricks:
> 
> http://handlers.sans.org/tliston/ThwartingVM*Detection*_Liston_Skoudis.pdf

Interesting link (once I'd removed the * characters) - thanks!

Cheers
Tony
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