How to tell if a Windows Server or Desktop is a VM
October 22nd, 2009
In order for this trick to work you will need to have Admin rights to the machine. Assuming that this is the case you can then proceed first of all you will want to psexec to the machine then from there simply run a reg query. The following line of code is what you will want to put in:
C:\reg query HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SystemInformation\
The results will be likely similar to the following:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SystemInformation
BIOSVersion REG_SZ 080112
BIOSReleaseDate REG_SZ 06/09/2009
SystemManufacturer REG_SZ Microsoft Corporation
SystemProductName REG_SZ Virtual Machine
InformationSource REG_DWORD 0×0

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