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