Re: Is it possible to detect a virtual machine
Re: Is it possible to detect a virtual machine
- Subject: Re: Is it possible to detect a virtual machine
- From: Jean Suisse <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:58:40 +0100
I don't have the answer to your question, but here is a thought:
Virtual machines, such as VMWare, present some generic hardware to the OS they run. Could you detect the available hardware, check the vendor, and then decide wether or not you are running in a virtual environment ?
Jean
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Jean Suisse
Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de l’Université de Bourgogne
(ICMUB) — UMR 6302
On 2 mars 2013, at 17:17, Kjell Nilsson <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am wondering if it is possible to detect if my Cocoa Application is running in a virtual machine like VMWare, VirtualBox or Parallells Desktop from inside my app.
>
> Kind regards
> --kerusan
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