imvirt - I'm virtualized? |
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This little perl script tries to detect if it is called from within a virtualization container. This is detected by looking for well-known boot messages, directories and reading DMI (Desktop Management Interface) data.
The following containers are detected:
The tool will print exactly one line. The result has the following meaning:
| Line | Detected container |
|---|---|
| Physical | This is a physical machine or a not detected container. |
| Virtual | This is a virtual machine running in a not detected container. |
| HVM: <signature> | signature of an unknown hypervisor* |
| VirtualBox | VirtualBox |
| Microsoft | unidentifiable Microsoft based virtualization**** |
| Microsoft Hyper-V | Microsoft Hyper-V/Virtual Server**** |
| Microsoft VirtualPC | Microsoft Virtual PC**** |
| VMware | VMware Virtual Platform |
| VMware (Express|ESX Server|GSX Server|Workstation) | VMware Virtual Platform* |
| OpenVZ | OpenVZ/Virtuosso* |
| QEMU | QEMU/KVM (based) |
| UML | User Mode Linux* |
| Xen | Xen hypervisor |
| Xen (PV|HVM) | Xen hypervisor* |
| lguest | Lguest: The Simple x86 Hypervisor** |
| ARAnyM | Atari Running on Any Machine*** |
| LXC | Linux Containers*** |
| Parallels | Parallels Workstation***** |
There are simular packages for detecting virtualization containers available:
Current version is 0.9.6
There are official Debian packages available here.
VCS: https://github.com/DE-IBH/imvirt
There is a portable ImVirt version available. It is a self-contained perl script (using PAR Packager). There is a core and a bundle build of ImVirt Portable. The latter contains all the PAR Packager glue and has no additional dependency. Downloads are available at the releases page: https://github.com/DE-IBH/imvirt/releases/
| 2013-08-23, Thomas Liske |  |