This is a small paper that summarizes a number of more extense papers describing different methods of VM detection. It may be of help:
http://www.s21sec.com/descargas/vmware-eng.pdf On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:40 PM, <pyt...@bdurham.com> wrote: > Looking for ideas on how to detect when our Windows application is running > in one of the following VM environments. Some starter ideas for detection > are in parentheses. There may be (much) better detection techniques - the > starter ideas I've come up with are based on my Google research. > > - VMWare (looking for the presence of optional VMware Tools is one way) > - Microsoft Virtual PC (have a device named "Virtual HD" for their IDE > disks, "MS Virtual SCSI Disk Device" for their SCSI disks) > - Citrix Xen > - Sun Virtual Box > > Any suggestions? > > Malcolm > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 > > -- HONEY: I want to… put some powder on my nose. GEORGE: Martha, won’t you show her where we keep the euphemism? _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32