I have access to a machine to which I can ssh. How to determine if my OS is running in fully-virtualized (where VMM does binary translation), para-virtualized or non-virtualized environment? I have some idea of how to go about it (some operations like accessing a memory page/disk will take longer time in a virtualized environment) but don't know how to proceed.
How to find if my OS is running on a virtualized or non-virtualized environment?
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It does depends on the VMM you are running on top of. If it's a Xen or Microsoft VM, I believe
CPUIDwithEAXvalue of 0x40000000 will give you a non-zero value inEAX. Not sure if that works on VMWare, VirtualBox or KVM. I expect that it will work there too...Measuring access time is unlikely to ALWAYS show you the truth, since in a non-VM system those can vary quite a lot as well, and there is no REAL reason that you'd see a huge difference in an efficient implementation. And of course, you don't know if your VM is running with a REAL hard-disk controller passed through via the PCI, or if your NFS mounted disks are connected via a REAL network card passed through to the VM, or if they are accessed through a virtual network card.
A good VMM shouldn't show you much difference as long as the application is behaving itself.