Je suis en train d'explorer la piste vboxmanage pour modifier les informations DMI du BIOS:
Configuring the BIOS DMI information
The DMI data VirtualBox provides to guests can be changed for a specific VM. Use the following commands to configure the DMI BIOS information:
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSVendor" "BIOS Vendor"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSVersion" "BIOS Version"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSReleaseDate" "BIOS Release Date"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSReleaseMajor" 1
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSReleaseMinor" 2
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSFirmwareMajor" 3
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSFirmwareMinor" 4
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemVendor" "System Vendor"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemProduct" "System Product"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemVersion" "System Version"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemSerial" "System Serial"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemSKU" "System SKU"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemFamily" "System Family"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemUuid"
"9852bf98-b83c-49db-a8de-182c42c7226b"
If a DMI string is not set, the default value of VirtualBox is used. To set an empty string use "<EMPTY>".
Note that in the above list, all quoted parameters (DmiBIOSVendor, DmiBIOSVersion but not DmiBIOSReleaseMajor) are expected to be strings. If such a string is a valid number, the parameter is treated as number and the VM will most probably refuse to start with an VERR_CFGM_NOT_STRING error. In that case, use "string:<value>", for instance
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemSerial" "string:1234"
Changing this information can be necessary to provide the DMI information of the host to the guest to prevent Windows from asking for a new product key. On Linux hosts the DMI BIOS information can be obtained with
dmidecode -t0
and the DMI system information can be obtained with
dmidecode -t1
Tips:
- dmidecode est inclus sur le Live CD de Fedora 15
- après avoir modifié un paramètre avec VBoxManage il faut redémarrer la VM pour visualiser la modification avec dmidecode