virtual-pc – Tarik Billa

Determine when running in a virtual machine

July 26, 2023 by Tarik

I wrote a series of articles last year on this, with source code. VMware and Wine detection are here. Virtual PC is here. All three of these have pretty iron-clad detection because there are documented callbacks to the hypervisor (in the case of Wine, an extension to a standard DLL). I put up an untested … Read more

Detect virtualized OS from an application?

February 15, 2023 by Tarik

Have you heard about blue pill, red pill?. It’s a technique used to see if you are running inside a virtual machine or not. The origin of the term stems from the matrix movie where Neo is offered a blue or a red pill (to stay inside the matrix = blue, or to enter the … Read more