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specify hardware type and model
Posted: 1. Sep 2010, 03:43
by zmansour
Friends,
I need to fool an install program into thinking a vbox win7 vm is a particular type of machine, i.e., a Dell T5500. In other words, if I were to run winmsd on the guest it should say something like "Dell" and "T5500" instead of "innotek GmbH" and "VirtualBox" for "System Manufacturer" and "System Model", respectively. Is this possible, and if so how?
Cheers,
Z.
Re: specify hardware type and model
Posted: 1. Sep 2010, 04:22
by BillG
winmsd does not work in Windows 7. You need to use msinfo32.
I doubt that you can do what you want.
Re: specify hardware type and model
Posted: 1. Sep 2010, 04:43
by Perryg
It sounds like you have a DELL OEM install CD/DVD and that is not going to work. It is licensed to their machine and actually illegal to run on anything else sorry to say.
Re: specify hardware type and model
Posted: 1. Sep 2010, 04:49
by zmansour
BillG, I'm sure you're right about winmsd vs msinfo32. I used winmsd on an xp vm to get a good description of the problem I have. I hope you're wrong about not being able to do it.
Perrg, no it's not an OEM install. The machine is a Dell T5500, but I want to put linux on it as the host and my company's win7 image on top of that as a guest. The win7 image inspects the "machine" and decides that "VirtualBox" is not a supported platform. It refuses to install.
Any and all help much appreciated.
Z.
Re: specify hardware type and model
Posted: 1. Sep 2010, 08:52
by fixedwheel
you want to fake the BIOS DMI information for the guest? ... have a look at the
HOWTO: Windows XP in both VM and native thread
Re: specify hardware type and model
Posted: 1. Sep 2010, 20:55
by Sasquatch
You might want to talk to your system administrator to get it to install inside a VM. The image you're trying to load is probably made for that type of Dell only, so it probably has issues with drivers. That's also why the check is done, to make sure you don't get any errors whatsoever.