Re: Get VM OS type

> @Riepl > nmap -sS -O does help in fetching the OS type only if they have > public ip. I cant ssh into the machines because they are customer > machines and I dont have credentials for them. We had such a situation a few times, and simply asked the affected customer if they would permit us to

Re: Get VM OS type

Thanks a lot for your replies. @Riepl nmap -sS -O does help in fetching the OS type only if they have public ip. I cant ssh into the machines because they are customer machines and I dont have credentials for them. @Nikolaos ping didnt work for me all the time because few VM's have blocked ping

Re: Get VM OS type

Another solution is to ping a VM and check the TTL value. Due to slightly different TCP/IP implementation on each OS-family, you can identify the OS family by checking this table On Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 12:44 Riepl, Gregor (SWISS TXT) <

Re: Get VM OS type

> version. Another way is to open the console and see the login screen. > This will get the actual data but I want to do automation to see for > all VM's and opening the console is not feasible to automate. Is > there any other way to get it? Are the VMs networked? You could fetch their public

Get VM OS type

Hello Folks Is there a way to know whether the VM is running on Windows or Linux OS? I can't reply on OS type because we can use Ubuntu as OS type for Windows VM. Even though the os type is Linux/Ubuntu, the VM is running on Windows version. Another way is to open the console and see the login