Tobias Glemser wrote:
> Nicolas,
>> Nessus identifies if the remote host is running under VMWare with
>> vmware_detect.nasl.
> Hm, you're right. There also exists a plugin to identify a vmware-server.
>
> vmware_detect.nasl relies primarly on the MAC adress, but the list seems
> not to be complete for not discovering my VMware :)
> vmware_server_detect.nasl checks the banner of the VMware remote-console
> but also failed to identify my server. Hopefully I got time to write a
> fix during my holidays.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Toby
>
We've blogged about this in the past:
http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2006/07/enhanced_vmware.html
The plugin requires either a MAC address (from a local ping) or a
credentialed OS check.
Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security
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