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VM fails with VERR_CFGM_NOT_STRING after setting Dmi

Posted: 19. Apr 2009, 18:15
by quintesse
After setting the Dmi settings as described in the "Windows XP in both VM and native" thread I get this error when tryin to start the VM:

Configuration Error: Querying "DmiBIOSVersion" as a string failed (VERR_CFGM_NOT_STRING).

Seems that VBox expects a string but the number I get from the dmidecode was "0405". If I manually change the value in the XML file to include a space before the number the error goes away, but I don't think that will actually work ;)

Any ideas how this problem can be circumvented?

Thanks

Re: VM fails with VERR_CFGM_NOT_STRING after setting Dmi

Posted: 29. Apr 2009, 09:35
by frank

Code: Select all

VBoxManage setextradata VM_NAME DmiBIOSVersion "string:0405"