How do I know if I'm working on a Virtual Machine or not?

Solution 1:

In the CMD window type:

SYSTEMINFO

You will find a line with the following text (or similar):

System Manufacturer:       VMware, Inc.
System Model:              VMware Virtual Platform

Solution 2:

If it's Windows, just have a look at the hardware screens. It'll have a billion and five VMWare-branded virtual devices.

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Solution 3:

If it's handled by VMware, it isn't too difficult at the present moment. This could change in the future.

# dmidecode -s system-manufacturer
VMware, Inc.

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Solution 4:

In Linux you can also use "virt-what". "virt-what - detect if we are running in a virtual machine".

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Solution 5:

On Windows, from CMD:

Systeminfo | findstr /i model

returns something like:

System Model:              VMware Virtual Platform
                           [01]: Intel64 Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5 GenuineInt