RushPL wrote:This tutorial worked perfectly on my Thinkpad T420.
>VBoxManage setextradata "Boot Camp" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSVendor" "Apple Inc."
Configuration error: Querying "RamSize" as integer failed (VERR_CFGM_VALUE_NOT_FOUND).
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: ConsoleWrap
Interface: IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed}
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSVendor"
but"VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiBIOSVendor"
Chapter 9.12 Configuring the BIOS DMI information has the following excerpt which you might have missed:In case your VM is configured to use EFI firmware you need to replace pcbios by efi in the keys.
socratis wrote:1) Why would you want to change the BIOS Vendor? Just out of curiosity...
socratis wrote:2) Macs don't have a BIOS, so the line should not be"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSVendor"
but"VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiBIOSVendor"
Chapter 9.12 Configuring the BIOS DMI information has the following excerpt which you might have missed:In case your VM is configured to use EFI firmware you need to replace pcbios by efi in the keys.
It shouldn't fail, but you never know. Try it out...
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