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 -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org