LinuxCommandLibrary

vmware-checkvm

vmware-checkvm

TLDR

Return the current VMware software version (exit status determines whether the system is a VM or not)

$ vmware-checkvm
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Return the VMware hardware version
$ vmware-checkvm -h
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SYNOPSIS

vmware-checkvm

DESCRIPTION

This is a simple console application and can be run as any user. vmware-checkvm check if is running in a VM (returns 0) or not (returns 1).

OPTIONS

vmware-checkvm has no options.

HOMEPAGE

More information about vmware-checkvm and the Open VM Tools can be found at <http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>.

SEE ALSO

vmware-toolbox-cmd(1) libguestlib(3) libvmtools(3) vmware-xferlogs(1) vmware-user-suid-wrapper(1)

AUTHOR

Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. <http://www.vmware.com/>.

This manual page was put together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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