VM or Physical machine ??

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Is it possible to know from a remote system whether another system (rather server) is a physical machine or a virtual machine ?
 
Editing the post .

If its a windows machine then you can guess it by using computer management.

Just connect to the vm machine and check device manager

if the disk is QEMU disk then it might be a vm guest.(running xen virtualization)

I guess vmware guest should be using QEMU disk not sure though.
 
yes it is very much possible. check system information. it will show system platform as virtual. if its vmware server then vmware tools are also installed.
 
Thanks for your replies.

But, i need to check whether a server is VM or not from my machine. How would i do that? I am not able to see the server's system properties.
 
if the server is using
1)FULL Virtualization ( in case where MAC addr has not explicitly defined ) === YES
2)Para Virtualization === NO
3)Full Virt. with IOMMU/vt-d === NO

for 1) === u need to copy/note MAC addr associated with SERVER IP addr (first ping server ip and then use ARP command to note SERVER mac addr ) and then paste that MAC here MAC_Find: Vendor/Ethernet/Bluetooth MAC Address Lookup and Search

NOW the 1) is not a very ACCURATE solution ... but will WORK (verified in VMware Workstation/Virtualbox/VMware Server) mostly if SCENARIO 1) exist.
 
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