If you use WMI in your script to show the nic type, you could sort for the nic types that show up for virtual machines. The names will reference VMWare in some fashion, as in "VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter"
________________________________ From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Detecting virtual machines Does anyone know of a good way to detect whether a server is virtual or physical through a script of some kind? I am currently filtering some of my GPOs via security group membership and I have one group for physical servers, another for virtual. I am wondering if there is some way I can run a startup script that will, when a machine is first joined to the domain, identify whether it is a virtual machine or not, and add it to the correct security group accordingly. This would save me the headache of trawling through new-build machines and adding them to the right groups. I am using VMWare ESX 3.5 for my virtual machines. All suggestions gratefully received... TIA, JRR -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
