Never done it, but could you WMI Query the manufacturer? iirc, the 'manufacturer' of all my VMs make it obvious it's a VM. http://techsupt.winbatch.com/TS/T000001002F11.html
________________________________ 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/> ~
