Determining hardware

In the first chapter, we used dmidecode and other tooling to work out if we were in a VM or not; here, we're going to go a bit further and try to determine what hardware we might be running in a system, from the disk IDs to the type of graphics card in use.

Getting ready

Connect to your Vagrant VM and install some of the extra tools we're going to use:

$ vagrant ssh
$ sudo yum install -y pciutils usbutils

How to do it...

We're going to pick through a few different methods for determining the hardware a system is running; even if you...