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.

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