How to detect if a PB program is running inside a VM

[glomph]

Happy new year to all.

It is possible to detect if a PB program is running inside a Virtual Machine.

Saw same stuff here:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/982 ... -a-Virtual

Unfortunately I'm not able to translate that code into PB.
Maybe someone has tried something like this and could help.

Glomph

[idle]

you should be able to use cpuid info with the flag #hypervisor but you may still need to do additional checks.

see here http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 12&t=61060

and use IsCPU(#hypervisor)

[glomph]

Thank you very much Idle

That's a start!

Glomph

[glomph]

....and even more fine:
It works on MAC too.

[jassing]

I worked on a project that had to refuse to run on a VM. we found using the ID of the NIC a good way; ultimately we used a NIC database and a CPU check as backup/secondary -- sometimes the CPU check was passed to the host OS, so you didn't get the right value...

[glomph]

@ jassing,
thanks you for your advice.

Surely you point the right direction.

Never before I had to look a NIC,
so I nead a little more help,
to get through.

Have all a nice day
Glomph

[jassing]

Getting the NIC information should be trivial -- and I'm sure there are code samples/examples on these forums.
Now the list of NIC info... that's a different story... It wasn't an exhaustive list, but we did sample all the "free" VM's, VMWare, Microsofts, and a few other that had trials...
I no longer work on that project, but I will see if I have the list in my personal archives....

We had to do multiple checks as each VM seemed to offer it's own unique issues that would fail some "generic" test...