virtualmachine 1.3.5

Detect when running under virtual machine

vmdetect

A comprehensive toolkit for detecting virtual machine environments. Available as a cross-platform library (Python, C, C++) and command-line tool for Windows and Linux, it employs multiple techniques to reliably identify various virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, QEMU).

Based on py_vmdetect sources from https://github.com/kepsic/py_vmdetect

Installation

Pre build packages

You can download installation package for supported linux distributions in Open Build Service

Examples:

Command line

vmdetect
echo $?

vmdetect -n
Bare Metal

vmdetect -i
0

Python

import virtualmachine
print(virtualmachine.name())

import virtualmachine
print(virtualmachine.id())

C++

#include <vmdetect/virtualmachine.h>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
	VirtualMachine vm;

	if(vm) {
		cout << "Running on '" << vm << "' virtual machine" << endl;
		return 1;
	}

	return 0;
}