In article <g69q3o$f9v$1@softins.clara.co.uk>,
Tony Mountifield <tony@softins.clara.co.uk> 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?

Thanks for the responses. Grepping for VMware in /proc/scsi/scsi or
the output from dmidecode look to be the most reliable options.

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In article <48886F83.6090707@xplanation.com>,
Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens@xplanation.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?
> >
> >
>
> This paper show some very interesting tricks:
>
> http://handlers.sans.org/tliston/ThwartingVM*Detection*_Liston_Skoudis.pdf

Interesting link (once I'd removed the * characters) - thanks!

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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?




# dmidecode | grep Product
Product Name: VMware Virtual Platform

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Tom Brown 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?




# dmidecode | grep Product
Product Name: VMware Virtual Platform

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mmm....

a XEN VPS gives me this:


# dmidecode | grep Product
/dev/mem: mmap: Bad address


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# dmidecode | grep Product
Product Name: VMware Virtual Platform

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mmm....

a XEN VPS gives me this:
# dmidecode | grep Product
/dev/mem: mmap: Bad address



so its not running on VMware - great job done

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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.

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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?

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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?


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In article <4888ABCA.8000203@calnek.com>,
Milton Calnek <milton@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)

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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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