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?
|

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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