VMWare

Is the host you are on a virtual machine or real?

Honeypotting with VMware

One way to identify VMware systems is by their BIOS

BIOS ID: unknown BIOS Date: 10/16/01 BIOS Signon: unknown BIOS Type: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 licensed to Intel Super I/O: unknown Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX rev 1

another is finding files like:

Windows: VMware tools, under windows this will show up in "Add/Remove programs"

UNIX: ..such as /etc/rc.d/init.d/dualconf, "Copyright (C) 1998-99, VMware Inc." and the /etc/vmware-tools/ directory.

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