[CentOS] How to detect whether running on VMware?
Rudi Ahlers
Rudi at SoftDux.com
Thu Jul 24 14:52:24 UTC 2008
Tom Brown 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?
>>
>>
>
> # dmidecode | grep Product
> Product Name: VMware Virtual Platform
>
> _______________________________________________
mmm....
a XEN VPS gives me this:
# dmidecode | grep Product
/dev/mem: mmap: Bad address
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Rudi Ahlers
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