There are ways to detect this in a VM, yes. It is my understanding that Windows looks at the video card driver. lspci should give enough info for this. Eg with the 'vmvga' and 'cirrus' kvm drivers (there are others that can be added): $ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter
$ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/870024 Title: suspend on idle should be disabled when running inside a VM To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/870024/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
