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imvirt - I'm virtualized?
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This script tries to detect if it is run under a (para)virtualization.
This is done by looking for wellknown boot messages, device names,
installed tools etc.

Detected virtualizations:
 - ARAnyM
 - KVM
 - lguest
 - LXC
 - Microsoft Virtual PC / Hyper-V
 - OpenVZ/Virtuozzo
 - Parallels Workstation
 - QEMU
 - UML
 - VMware GSX, ESX, Workstation
 - VirtualBox
 - Xen (para and non-para virtualized)
 - any HVM providing CPUID 0x40000000 detection

imvirt is comparable with virt-what [1]. imvirt was written to run as
non-root - virt-what requires to be run as root but had some more
details on Xen (Dom0/DomU/HVM) in the past.

There is a portable version available: [ImVirt Portable](imvirt/tree/master/PORTABLE.md)

Some random links taken as suggestions:

1. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/
2. http://www.dmo.ca/blog/detecting-virtualization-on-linux/
3. http://my.opera.com/jaelanicu/blog/2008/04/02/a-better-red-pill-scooby-for-vmware
4. http://my.opera.com/jaelanicu/blog/show.dml/4257341
5. http://www.codegurus.be/codegurus/Programming/virtualpc&vmware_en.htm
6. http://flierlu.blogspot.com/2008/04/virtualization-detection.html
7. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=91E2E518-C62C-4FF2-8E50-3A37EA4100F5&displaylang=en
8. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1009458
9. http://invisiblethings.org/papers/redpill.html
10. http://www.offensivecomputing.net/files/active/0/vm.pdf
11. http://www.s21sec.com/descargas/vmware-eng.pdf
12. http://www.trapkit.de/research/vmm/scoopyng/index.html

 -- Thomas Liske <liske@ibh.de>  Thu, 31 Aug 2012 22:36:09 +0200