RE: 2.1.19p1 misidentifies if server is VMWare ESX

[Chris Edillon]

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 17:51 -0800, Littlefield, Larry wrote:
> If you are looking to determine if you are in the instance of a VMware,
> the only thing I can find are
> 2 processes running:
>   root       704     1  0 Feb28 ?        00:01:33 [vmmemctl]
>   root       722     1  0 Feb28 ?        00:35:40
> /usr/sbin/vmware-guestd --background /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid
> And a status command that returns stuff:
>   address@hidden # /usr/sbin/vmware-checkvm
>   VMware software version 6 (good)
> 
  those should only exist if the VMware tools package is installed
in the guest VM.  i tend to use the output of lspci to see if i'm
in a VM, as the video card hardware is listed as "VMware SVGA II"
device for past and current versions of VMware (workstation and
server products both).

chris