One of the ways is to check the MAC address of your machine to see which vendor it is:
On Ubuntu
ifconfig
Check the HWaddr value on this site: www.coffer.com/mac_find/
For example VMware’s MAC address would start with 000C29
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How to check if server is virtual or not?
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009Kernel upgrade on Ubuntu 9.04 running in VMware Fusion
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009If you’re running Ubuntu 9.04 in VMware Fusion (2.04) you’ve probably come across the following post from VMware:
Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” on VMware Fusion 2
If you upgrade the kernel you’ll have to follow the instructions again making sure to do the following as mentioned in one of the comments:
What did work for me was to:
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
and then
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
I then logged out, restarted the Xserver..