True dat Benjamin, but you can click an option to hide that VM Tool icon in the sys-tray.

I was hoping that there might be a DMV which might be able to detect it. A sneaky infrastructure builder could mask it if they wanted to conceal the fact that you might be running on a VM. We've put up several VMs with SAN-based storage, the C: drives even appear as Local drives.

Hmmm...way back when, I was a mainframe system programmer. We ran IBM's VM operating system, but we could easily spin up an MVS machine under a VM and neither the OS or users of it could tell that they weren't running under VM.

Thanks for the tip though.