[CentOS] How to detect whether running on VMware?
Milton Calnek
milton at calnek.com
Thu Jul 24 16:20:26 UTC 2008
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
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?
|
Obviously from the responses many people have a solution...
my question is "Why do you care?".
What is it that you would do (or not do) on a vmware guest that you
might do on bare metal?
- --
Milton Calnek BSc, A/Slt(Ret.)
milton at calnek.com
306-717-8737
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
iD8DBQFIiKvKHgnbf2T2QqMRAtn9AKCtBZ4c+8d06WtNALiaXGMKDjAUAACfaMHd
Vxm3Gh7osNG0QRc7pG7MsHw=
=/Mzo
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.
More information about the CentOS
mailing list