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    August 20

    How to find out VMWARE Host name from guest machine

    I came up with a problem on how to determine the VMWARE host that hosted my virtual machine so that I can physically back it up.  The challenge is that we have 50 of those hosts.  I can login remotely to the virtual machine via RDP. So after some registry lurking in the hosted virtual machine, I found out that you can find the name of the VMWare Host in:
     

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters\PhysicalHostName

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