Obviously, you would have to rewrite the BIOS to conform to different version of the spec.
p.s. Please stop quoting the entirety of a previous post - it create a lot of unnecessary repetition. Quotes should be used selectively, to highlight what particular points you are referring to. See how others use the feature.
[Solved] How can the BIOS release date be changed for a VirtualBox VM?
Re: [Solved] How can the BIOS release date be changed for a VirtualBox VM?
Thanks for the answer, I'll also be more selective when quoting. There's one thing more I'd like to know about DMI which I haven't been able to find on Google. I already changed the BIOS version and when I run it gives me the BIOS version I modified from the host terminal, however, if I run , it returns me VBOX -1. i've tried to find documentation for wmic bios (not just wmic) but haven't found anything. Therefore, what's the difference between SMBIOBIOSVersion and Version and how may I modify the version so it says something different from VBOX -1?
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wmic bios get SMBIOSBIOSVersion
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wmic bios get version
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Re: [Solved] How can the BIOS release date be changed for a VirtualBox VM?
This statement is simply wrong. I've read 9.9. Configuring the BIOS DMI Information again, trying to find out what could be possibly misunderstood, and found the ubiquitous term "DMI BIOS information":jefazo92 wrote:And according to the VirtualBox User Manual if you run the command you run above in the host and then check the SMBIOS version with msinfo32 or wmic with cmd in the Windows VM you should see the newly changed SMBIOS version which for me is not happening.
"DMI" is the predecessor of "SMBIOS", and this chapter of the VirtualBox User Manual talks about the "BIOS information" located in the DMI/SMBIOS structures/tables. In other words, you must read it as "DMI (BIOS information)" and not as "(DMI BIOS) information". Nowhere does this chapter talk about the "SMBIOS version" or "DMI version". Especially, the "DmiBIOSVersion" is the "BIOS version" and not the "DMI version" or "SMBIOS version".
jefazo92 wrote:Now I only want to know [...] how may I then change the SMBIOS version.
fth0 wrote:AFAICS, VirtualBox only creates SMBIOS 2.5 tables, and you'd have to adapt the VirtualBox source code and build VirtualBox yourself to change that.
A good trick is to use rare search strings: Googling "smbiosbiosversion site:docs.microsoft.com" leads to Win32_BIOS class.jefazo92 wrote:i've tried to find documentation for wmic bios (not just wmic) but haven't found anything.