How to find if windows is running on a vm or on a physical machine?

Question

I have a windows server where we run some of the project managements services. I usually remote desktop into it to manage the service.

The service has become really slow and the documentation says that its not advisable to run the service on a VM.

Now how do i find out if the windows install is running on a VM?

Answer 1

You could take a look through device manager, you'll most likely have quite a few VMWare of virtual drivers that you wouldn't get on a physical machine.

Also you could type systeminfo into a CMD window and if it says System Manufacturer: VMware, Inc. or similar instead of Microsoft Windows then you'll be able to work out of the set-up is virtual or not.

Answer 2

For windows, Click Start → Write msinfo32 → press Enter

System manufacturer info will display "VMWare. Inc" if it is a VMWare VM. Probably other VM platforms like Hyper-V, etc. will also fill this info.