On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > The idea of this exercise is to detect an emulator _without_ special > setup? I found a post [1] by Dave O'Neill which has some ideas, like checking /proc/ide/hd*/model (though grep -q X /sys/class/block/*/device/model would probably work better, assuming that there exists an appropriate X). Finn [1] http://www.dmo.ca/blog/detecting-virtualization-on-linux/