Differentiate VMware network adapter from physical network adapters -or- Detect Virtual Network Adaptor

Question

I have to differentiate between the real addresses and the VM addresses using any Windows API. I\'m using GetAdaptersAddresses API to populate a list of IP addr

Answer 1

I found a site to get more complete list of MAC address prefix, after reading clyfe answer.

Please visit: Vendor/Ethernet/Bluetooth MAC Address Lookup and Search

For example: VirtualBox has 17 MAC prefix!

Prefix  Vendor
000F4B  Virtual Iron Software, Inc. (was: Katana Technology)
001307  Paravirtual Corporation (was: Accenia, Inc.)
0013BE  Virtual Conexions
0021F6  Virtual Iron Software
00240B  Virtual Computer Inc.
00A0B1  First Virtual Corporation
00E0C8  virtual access, ltd.
545200  linux kernal virtual machine (kvm)
000F4B  Virtual Iron Software, Inc. (was: Katana Technology)
001307  Paravirtual Corporation (was: Accenia, Inc.)
0013BE  Virtual Conexions
0021F6  Oracle Corporation (was: Virtual Iron Software)
00240B  Virtual Computer Inc.
00A0B1  First Virtual Corporation
00E0C8  virtual access, ltd.
18922C  Virtual Instruments
3CF392  Virtualtek. Co. Ltd

At the end I preferred to detect Virtual network adapter from its 'Network Card Description'. If I see 'Virtual' or 'VMWare' word in it description (C++: IP_ADAPTER_INFO::Description), I will assume it is virtual network adapter.