Detect if we are running in a virtual machine

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virt-what is a shell script which can be used to detect if the program is running in a virtual machine.

virt-what supports a very large number of different hypervisor types, including common open source hypervisors (KVM, Xen, QEMU, VirtualBox), mainframe systems like IBM Systemz, LPAR, z/VM, hardware partitioning schemes like Hitachi Virtage, proprietary hypervisors like VMWare, Microsoft Hyper-V and much more.

virt-what

Source-and-binaries

man pages

git clone git://git.annexia.org/git/virt-what.git

virt-what is already packaged in Fedora (13+), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (5.7+ and 6.1+), Debian, Ubuntu, ArchLinux and Gentoo, and it can be compiled from source on just about any Linux.

Deb-Distro

apt-get install virt-what

RPM-Distro

yum install virt-what