how to change system information

[mafialive]

Hello,

I want to change system information of my guest windows 10. I don't know how to do that... currently it's showing VirtualBox i want to change it physcial machine name like Compaq and HP type.

Help me please

Thanks

[scottgus1]

If you are referring to the device names in the guest's Device Manager, I have read that you'd have to re-work the source code and driver code and re-compile Virtualbox. There isn't any easy way to rename the virtual hardware.

[mafialive]

any easy way to change it? currently showing model Virtualbox... if not then it will be worst for me...

[scottgus1]

Nope, not gonna repeat maself, no, don't chew ma cabbage twice....

[mpack]

People won't believe you unless you say it twice. It's a very odd behaviour that I observe a lot.

Maybe it's the influence of Hollywood: the monster isn't really dead until it's been killed twice...

[neilbryant]

You want to change these two things in your DMI information, IIRC:

• System Vendor
• System Product

So it should be the following, from a command prompt:

Code: Select all

VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemVendor"      "Compaq"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemProduct"     "Thingamajig"

See how, here:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=78887

Maybe the true influence of Hollywood is people being too willing to believe their own press.

[scottgus1]

Interesting, Neil, you bring a different perspective. Unfortunately Maf never clarified what he was talking about, or whether my idea he was discussing the Device manager was correct or not, and just pushed on asking if his request was easy.

Your commands do work. In Windows, "msinfo32" System Information, System Manufacturer and System Model reflect the Vendor and Produce names respectively.