You might be able to get this using Sydi. Sydi is a free open source system documentation tool that generates some very complete system documentation documents in Windows or Linux, and you can export to word or in your case an xml doc which you could parse. If anything you could look for the vmtools installed. http://sydiproject.com/
Good luck! -Greg Olson ________________________________ From: Klint Price [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Detect VMWare VM It probably does 80% of what I want, but not in the way I want it. For example, I am going to write some hooks in my software to interface with VMWare Virtual Center, and some nice pretty charts and graphs for the Intranet. What would be really slick would be to include some similarity to Magic Jelly Bean so I can log what cd keys are used to ensure correct license utilization. Who knows, maybe I will offer it up to others interested in it. Klint ________________________________ From: Christopher Bodnar [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Detect VMWare VM Have you taken a look at this? http://www.open-audit.org/ Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 8:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Detect VMWare VM I am writing an inventory application. Basically a windows service will run on each machine in the domain, and it will publish various variables to a web service that will write to a db. I have a 60 column or so spreadsheet to track my 400+ servers in a dev environment (think constant domain membership changes, renames, application upgrades, etc), but it is prone to human error, and I would rather the system tell me what is on it, than a tech tell me what they "think" is on it. That way I will easily be able to keep my ping monitors and patch management up to date, and can provide snapshots of how the enterprise looks at any given moment. Klint ________________________________ From: Eldridge, Dave [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Detect VMWare VM Klint if you would why do you want to know this? I know we routinely put vendor applications on VM’s and of course they never know the difference. It just works for them. Just curious. From: Klint Price [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 6:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Detect VMWare VM Is there a script that will detect if the OS is running on a VM? Klint This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview Medical Center policy. This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return to sender and delete the message from your computer system. ________________________________ This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
