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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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