Determine when running in a virtual machine

Question

Is there an official way for an application to determine if it is running in VMWare or Virtual PC (or whatever Microsoft is calling it now)? The code I have seen i

Answer 1

This thread on the SysInternals forums has a couple of answers (in Delphi, of course), including a single IsVM function. I've tested on XP and Win2003 hosted on both XP and Vista in VMWare with good results.