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  • 1.  How to find whether it is a VM or a Physical machine?

    Posted Jun 15, 2012 09:15 AM

    If I have a Plain console where OS is installed without any vmtools installed. How to find whether it is a VM or a Physical machine?



  • 2.  RE: How to find whether it is a VM or a Physical machine?

    Posted Jun 15, 2012 09:18 AM

    In Device manager you can see the VGA, Hard disk shows you virtual configurations

    and also

    You can identify them by their network card's MAC addresses. A VMware guest MAC address will start with 00:50:56:.



  • 3.  RE: How to find whether it is a VM or a Physical machine?

    Posted Jun 15, 2012 09:24 AM

    any other ways?



  • 4.  RE: How to find whether it is a VM or a Physical machine?

    Posted Jun 15, 2012 09:35 AM

    Use msinfo32 comand in command line. It will show you the system information System manfacturer, system model etc..



  • 5.  RE: How to find whether it is a VM or a Physical machine?

    Posted Jun 15, 2012 09:36 AM

    Hi,

    It easy to find for windows servers.

    Go to   Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> System tools --> system information.

    If it is a VM then it will show you as below or if it is a physical server then it will show you Server Make and Model number



  • 6.  RE: How to find whether it is a VM or a Physical machine?

    Posted Jun 15, 2012 09:42 AM

    Looking at the installed drivers/hardware for any OS should tell you whether it's a virtual machine or not. The MAC address is also a good bet although there are ways to change it so not 100% reliable.

    Device manager in windows, or any number of windows commands, vb scripts, wmi etc. And /proc in linux.

    Thanks