Re: How to tell whether running under VMware?

Tony Mountifield wrote:
Does anyone know how a program, script or shell user can determine
whether the machine is running on bare metal or is a VMware guest?

I've never checked, but i'd imagine you could work it out from 'dmesg' if you caught it soon enough after bootup to still have all the boot-time messages. Or /var/log/messages boot-time stuff.




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