virtualization

How to detect if my application is running in a virtual machine?

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This is what I use: using (var searcher = new System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher(“Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem”)) { using (var items = searcher.Get()) { foreach (var item in items) { string manufacturer = item[“Manufacturer”].ToString().ToLower(); if ((manufacturer == “microsoft corporation” && item[“Model”].ToString().ToUpperInvariant().Contains(“VIRTUAL”)) || manufacturer.Contains(“vmware”) || item[“Model”].ToString() == “VirtualBox”) { return true; } } } } return false; Edit 2014-12-02: … Read more

Is there a virt-manager alternative for Mac OS X? [closed]

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There’s now a brew formula homebrew-virt-manager which I’ve used to successfully connect to a CentOS 5 box running qemu+kvm. brew tap jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager brew install virt-manager virt-viewer sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2 virt-manager -c qemu+ssh://user@libvirthost/system?socket=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock

How to run “Oracle VirtualBox (VBOX)” like a service after boot in fully background “Microsoft Windows (WIN)”

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How can I run VBOX under WIN like a service with script? The trick is to run the VM without GUI. With this you can easily run VM on WIN server like a service too. Prerequired is that exist some VM, you have some already. Below put its name instead {vm_name}. 1) Create script BAT … Read more

Does it make sense to dockerize (containerize) databases?

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“So can anyone see why dockerizing a database can be useful at all?” Good question Keeto. One of the main reasons for containerizing your databases is so that you can have the same consistent environment for your entire app, not just the stateless parts, across dev, staging and production. A consistent environment is one of … Read more

Difference between Docker and OpenVZ

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The perspective on containers is very different between the 2. In short OpenVZ sees a container as a VPS, and docker sees a container as an application/service. What does this imply? For OpenVZ you can expect that when you create containers, its sort of like making Virtual Servers. OpenVZ has interfaces focussed on setting up … Read more