on 7-25-2008 12:57 PM mouss spake the following: > 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 > > ... Most of those depend on your installing vmware tools package and their drivers. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080725/fdc0f2dd/attachment-0005.sig>