> > > 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? install VMware tools perhaps?