Ok, I’ve got a couple other methods so I thought I’d pass them along to you guys. These are methods passed to me by users.

The first one is: xp_readerrorlog 0,1,’Manufacturer’
I tried this on a number of my boxes with very mixed results. It didn’t have anything that specifically told me the VM wan’t virtual, and it didn’t work on any of my VMWare boxes. It appeared to work well enough with Hyper-V though.

The 2nd is: Win32_BaseBoard
This WMI class worked just fine for finding Hyper-V instances, but didn’t prove fruitful at all on VMWare. And again, there wasn’t really way way to tell whether it was physical or just not being reported correctly.

So there you have it. We’ve got 2 more methods, that I haven’t had much luck with, but maybe you’ll have more luck if you’ve got the right environment. So if you really don’t like the one I gave you yesterday, then pick one of these.