Marc-Andre Levesque wrote:

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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