CFEngine 2 does not provide a native class to determine a VMware machine, thus if you want to put VMware machines under CFEngine 2 control you have no native way of recognizing these machines by CFEngine 2.

Here’s one trick you could use in order to define a new class in CFEngine 2 which detects if the client is running in a VMware machine.

groups:

    vmware_machines = ( ReturnsZeroShell(/usr/sbin/dmidecode | /bin/grep ${quote}Product Name: VMware${quote}) )

If the client is running in a VMware machine the vmware_machines class will be defined and you can use it just like any other class in CFEngine 2, for example to install VMware Tools or anything else that needs to be performed on these machines.