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  • September 29, 2012 at 9:48 am

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    Larry Kruse (9/28/2012)

    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.

    You can hide the icon from the system tray but the windows services will still be there

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