AsenDURE @ Corner of 11th & 20th

A film not too long ago ignited a whole new generation of armchair epistemologists with it’s plot proposing that our minds may be living inside an virtual simulation (or matrix if you will), while our physical bodies are being used as batteries. Those familiar with philosophy will be all too familiar with this question posed since Descartes. In the Virtualization world, we have the converse: What if, unbeknownst to us, our computers were really running inside other computers for the selfish self-interest a special group of people? Such a setup has been in use for a very long time in the form of a Virtual Machines/Virtualization which basically fools an operating system into thinking it’s running on its own hardware.

Well here’s the script to detect if your application is running on VMWare or Virtual PC courtesy of Elias (aka lallous) from The Code Project.

*Intro adapted from arstechnica VMWare Vs. VPC.