Determining the name of the VMware host of a VM guest – from the guest

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Is it possible to determine the name of the VMware host (ESX or ESXi) that my guest resides in, from within the guest itself?

I would expect this to be possible via VMware Tools, but am not sure where to look.

You can't do it without first editing the VMX file.

Here is the stackoverflow answer to the same question

That's a problem I encountered and sometimes the drifts are so large that the ntp service refused to sync.

I found that if you install the vmware tools on the guest, it will automatically sync its time against the host's time.

I imagine you could use the vSphere SDK for Perl inside your VM to query those items:

You could ask here:

http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/forums/vsphere_sdk_perl