Determine if your system is a virtual machine (Hyper-V/VS/VPC) inside Vista or Server 2008

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Sunday, March 9. 2008

Determine if your system is a virtual machine (Hyper-V/VS/VPC) inside Vista or Server 2008

It is as easy as checking HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SystemInformation\SystemProductName to see if it contains the string Virtual. There are also some other system call tricks, like revealing if the OS is a Server Core, located here.

It looks like, if you wanted to, you could gather most of the information with PowerShell too. It looks pretty straightforward.
Posted by Aaron Tiensivu in Microsoft, Server, Virtualization, Vista, Windows OS at 19:36 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
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