lmvminfo
The lmvminfo utility returns the environment as virtual or not.
Usage
lmvminfo -long
Note:Flexnet Licensing Service needs to be installed for 'lmvminfo -long' to fetch the required details.
Where -long returns the following:
| • | Family of the virtual machine. The Family generally denotes the provider of the detected hypervisor software that the virtual machine (VM) is running on. |
The virtual environments for which Family names are generated are:
|
Hypervisor |
Family |
Name |
|
Hyper-V |
MICROSOFT |
HYPERV |
|
VMware Workstation |
VMWARE |
DESKTOP, previously VMWARE |
|
VMware ESXi |
VMWARE |
SERVER, previously VMWARE |
|
Oracle VirtualBox |
VIRTUALBOX |
VIRTUALBOX |
|
Citrix XenServer |
XEN |
XEN |
|
Amazon EC2 |
AMAZON |
EC2 |
|
Parallels |
PARALLELS |
PARALLELS |
|
QEMU |
QEMU |
QEMU |
|
QEMU-KVM* |
QEMU |
QEMU-KVM |
|
Google Compute |
|
COMPUTE |
|
Microsoft Azure |
MICROSOFT |
AZURE, previously HYPER-V |
|
everRun |
STRATUS |
EVERRUN |
|
* The KVM suffix is only appended to the QEMU hypervisor 'name' attribute (not the family attribute) when the presence of the KVM virtualization infrastructure has been detected. |
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| • | Name of the virtual machine. The Name specifies the detected hypervisor product that the virtual machine (VM) is running on. The Name is for future use and is intended to be a subset of family. |
| • | UUID of the machine |
| • | GENID of the machine |
Output example for the command lmvminfo -long:
C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\64bit\x64_n6>lmvminfo.exe -long
lmvminfo - Copyright (c) 1989-2021 Flexera Software LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Running on Virtual Platform
FAMILY=VMWARE
NAME=VMWARE
UUID=0F064D56-465C-1286-6243-81C70C2766FF
GENID=433646c3cd09838f:39d695b09d953cb4
Note:If the GENID is not available then “GENID: ERROR - Unavailable” is displayed.