In article <g69q3o$f9v$1 at softins.clara.co.uk>, Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.clara.co.uk> 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? Thanks for the responses. Grepping for VMware in /proc/scsi/scsi or the output from dmidecode look to be the most reliable options. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org