Marc-Andre Levesque wrote:
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From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tony Mountifield
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?
Cheers
Tony
This script does the trick for me on ESX 3 by looking at the (virtual) hardware description. But it probably is not foolproof.
if ( `/sbin/lspci | grep -qi vmware` ) || \
( `grep -qi vmware /proc/scsi/scsi` ); then
echo "This is a Virtual Machine."
Fi
Marc-Andre
Alternatively, grep the output from dmidecode for VMware:
dmidecode | grep VMware
You'll get output from VMware Server, I've not tested with other VMware
products.
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