Re: How to detect whether running on VMware?

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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?


This paper show some very interesting tricks:

http://handlers.sans.org/tliston/ThwartingVM*Detection*_Liston_Skoudis.pdf

One simple (but not really foolproof, and only for VMWare) is testing
the MAC address, and look at the OUI bytes; these are assigned to VMWare:

 00-05-69
 00-0C-29
 00-1C-14
 00-50-56



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