In article <4888ABCA.8000203 at calnek.com>, Milton Calnek <milton at calnek.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? > | > > 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? Just trying to understand a 3rd party setup where I was pretty sure one of their hosts was a vmware guest, but they didn't believe it was! (it was set up for them by someone else) Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org