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Is there somewhere from a Linux guest that will show me if the VM is running on VMWare's hypervisor?

Ideally a method that doesn't require vmware tools to be installed... maybe something in /proc or /sys?

Kyle Brandt
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  • http://serverfault.com/questions/65718/vmware-linux-server-how-can-you-tell-if-you-are-a-vm-or-real-hardware/66798#66798 and http://serverfault.com/questions/78343/renting-a-dedicated-but-getting-a-vps-how-to-detect – user9517 May 12 '14 at 18:48

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Yes, The quickest approach is to use the virt-what command.

# rpm -qf /usr/sbin/virt-what
virt-what-1.11-1.2.el6.x86_64

Output:

# virt-what 
vmware

But the utility also has facts for Xen, VirtualBox, KVM, Qemu, Parallels, etc.

ewwhite
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