MY HOST is WIN 7,
MY GUest is WIN XP,
MY PC is DELL VOSTRO 410 with VISTA BUSINESS AND XP DOWNGRADE
Actually I need to use my XP in a Virtual Machine legally of course, since my Core 2 duo e7200 doesnt support XP mode on Windows 7 i tried with virtual box wich is working fine for my own made XP mode.
Since dmidecode is not available in XP, I downloaded 2 windows alternative versions of dmidecode, one of them from here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/dmidecode.htm, this dmidecode works fine only on WIN XP,unfortunately my WIN 7 doesnt allow me run it,
the error says:
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Could not open \device\physicalmemory: Acess denied.
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wmic bios get /format:list
and here are the results:
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WINDOWS COMMAND: wmic bios get /format:list
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RESULTS:
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BiosCharacteristics={4,7,9,10,11,12,15,16,17,19,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,32,33
,36,37,40,41,42,48,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79}
BIOSVersion={"DELL - 42302e31","Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG"}
BuildNumber=
Caption=Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
CodeSet=
CurrentLanguage=n|US|iso8859-1
Description=Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
IdentificationCode=
InstallableLanguages=3
InstallDate=
LanguageEdition=
ListOfLanguages={"n|US|iso8859-1","n|US|iso8859-1","r|CA|iso8859-1"}
Manufacturer=Dell Inc.
Name=Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
OtherTargetOS=
PrimaryBIOS=TRUE
ReleaseDate=20080620000000.000000+000
SerialNumber=DJX9DH1
SMBIOSBIOSVersion=1.0.3
SMBIOSMajorVersion=2
SMBIOSMinorVersion=5
SMBIOSPresent=TRUE
SoftwareElementID=Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
SoftwareElementState=3
Status=OK
TargetOperatingSystem=0
Version=DELL - 42302e31
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WINDOWS COMMAND: msinfo32
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RESULTS:
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Property Value
BIOS Vendor Dell Inc.
BIOS Version 1.0.3
BIOS Date 06/20/2008
BIOS Size 1024 KB
BIOS Starting Segment E000h
DMI Version 2.5
Characteristics - supports ISA
and I created a .bat file instead the batch linux process used by other users on some topics of this forum
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MY WINDOWS BATCH .bat file:
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VBoxManage setextradata "WIN XP" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSVendor" "Dell Inc."
VBoxManage setextradata "WIN XP" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSVersion" "1.0.3"
VBoxManage setextradata "WIN XP" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSReleaseDate" "06/20/2008"
VBoxManage setextradata "WIN XP" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSReleaseMajor" 2
VBoxManage setextradata "WIN XP" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSReleaseMinor" 5
VBoxManage setextradata "WIN XP" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSFirmwareMajor" 2
VBoxManage setextradata "WIN XP" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSFirmwareMinor" 3
VBoxManage setextradata "WIN XP" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemVendor" "Dell Inc."
VBoxManage setextradata "WIN XP" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemProduct" "Vostro 410"
VBoxManage setextradata "WIN XP" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemVersion" "<EMPTY>"
VBoxManage setextradata "WIN XP" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemSerial" "DJX9DH1"
VBoxManage setextradata "WIN XP" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemFamily" "X86-based PC"
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failed starting the virtual machine WIN XP
invalid configuration for device pcbios device
(VERR_PDM_DEVINS_UNKNOW_CFG_VALUES)
unknown error creating VM
(VERR_PDM_DEVINS_UNKNOW_CFG_VALUES)
DETAILS:
Código Resultado:
E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Componente:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {0a51994b-cbc6-4686-94eb-d4e4023280e2}
In other topic of this forum I readed about call microsoft activation line by phone, and the result were: "your product is not supported", I think i have an OEM version or I dont know,
Anyway I still belive I can activate my WIN XP legally like the a real installation.
Thank you for help me if you can.....