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How to check if the machine I'm connected to is a virtual one or not

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    melwyn
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    When I connect to a machine (through RDC, VNC, PCAnywhere or any other such remoting application) is there any system setting I can check to know if the machine I'm connected to is a virtual machine or an actual physical one? Thanks, Melwyn

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      When I connect to a machine (through RDC, VNC, PCAnywhere or any other such remoting application) is there any system setting I can check to know if the machine I'm connected to is a virtual machine or an actual physical one? Thanks, Melwyn

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      Nope. You can try to gleen it from the devices installed though. You can get that using WMI queries.

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        Nope. You can try to gleen it from the devices installed though. You can get that using WMI queries.

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        Thanks for replying. I don't need to do this programmatically. I was given a machine at work and I was just curious to know if it was real or virtual. Obviously I don't have physical access to the machine (to see for myself) as it's in another part of the world. So there are some devices that would not be installed on a virtual machine? Something like keyboard and mouse? Thanks, Melwyn

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