These changes will protect against all of ScoopyNG’s checks, other than the sixth, when running on a multiprocessor machine. However, we do not recommend using these settings in VMware, because they disable the usefulness of VMware Tools and they may have serious negative effects on the performance of your virtual machines. Add these options only after you’ve exhausted all other techniques. These techniques have been mentioned for completeness, but modifying a .vmx file to try to catch ten of the potentially hundreds of ways that VMware might be detected can be a bit of a wild-goose chase.