[CentOS] How to detect whether running on VMware?

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Tony Mountifield wrote on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:47:04 +0000 (UTC):
> 
>> 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?
> 
> AFAIK, VMWare uses vmnet32 drivers for ethernet and possibly others for 
> other devices as well.
> 

indeed.

# modinfo vmxnet
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-486/misc/vmxnet.ko
author:         VMware, Inc.
description:    VMware Virtual Ethernet driver.
...

#  dmesg |grep -i vmware
hdc: VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
   Vendor: VMware,   Model: VMware Virtual S  Rev: 1.0
VMware hgfs: HGFS is disabled in the host
VMware hgfs: HGFS is disabled in the host
VMware memory control driver initialized
VMware vmxnet virtual NIC driver

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