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RickSheikh User is Offline

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06/25/2010 4:29 PM
To the OP, perhaps not the most efficient way (from the filtering perspective), but following one-liner ought to do as far as using the WMI for the "systeminfo" Get-QADComputer \| % {gwmi -computername $_.name Win32_ComputerSystem} \| select name,manufacturer,model On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Brandon Shell <tshell@gmail.com> wrote: > IIRC that actually uses WMI > > Sent from my iPad > > On Jun 24, 2010, at 8:22 AM, "Castillo, Daniel (Directory Services)" < > daniel.castillo@hp.com> wrote: > > When you issue a “systeminfo” check out the System Manufacturer and System > Model J > > > > System Manufacturer: VMware, Inc. > > System Model: VMware Virtual Platform > > > > System Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation > > System Model: Virtual Machine > > > > Works fine on Hyper-V and ESX. > > > > > > ~D~ > > > > From: activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto: > activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Brandon Shell > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 6:11 AM > To: <activedir@mail.activedir.org>activedir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] How to identfiy if server is running on > Virtual/ physical mode > > > > I would avoid using integration tools as the check. I would use WMI. There > are several reliable ways via WMI (ignoring malicious intent.) > > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Jun 24, 2010, at 6:11 AM, Nils Kaczenski < <n.ka@gmx.de>n.ka@gmx.de> > wrote: > > You could as well query for the presence of Hyper-V integration services or > VMware tools. However, this depends on those services being present in the > first place. > > Apart from these "soft" criteria there is no way for a machine to reliably > find out if it's running on iron or not as the CPU virtualization features > do not support such a distinction. This is what Rutkowska's "Blue Pill" uses > for its attack. > > Nils > > > Am 23.06.2010 18:21, schrieb Mohan Ravindran: > > Hi All, > > > > Is there any way to find out server is running on Virtual/ physical mode by > checking any services or anywhere? other than naming conventions we use... > -- > Regards, > Mohan R > Level2-Server support Engineer. > > > > -- > <http://www.kaczenski.de>www.kaczenski.de > MVP Windows Server: Directory Services > Twitter <http://twitter.com/Kaczenski> > Die Bücher meiner Frau: Stephanie Schneider<http://www.stephanie-schneider.de/inhalte/die-buecher/> > <http://www.faq-o-matic.net>www.faq-o-matic.net: Die technische Community > MVP-Profil: <https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Nils.Kaczenski> > https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Nils.Kaczenski > >

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