Detecting VMWare

Interested in how to detect the presence of VMware / VirtualServer I came across this bit of code to detect whether an application is being run in virtual environment. int swallow_redpill (){ unsigned char m[2+4], rpill[] = “\x0f\x01\x0d\x00\x00\x00\x00\xc3″; *((unsigned*)&rpill[3]) = (unsigned)m; ((void(*)())&rpill)(); return (m[5]>0xd0) ? 1 : 0; } This works by abusing the SIDT [...]