Question about extradata

[ebrummer]

I've searched a lot in the last few days and everywhere talks about setting extradata values but nothing to answer my question: What are the default extradata values or is it not defaulted?

I have a Win7 guest that was registered/authenticated. In an effort to bypass some software that didn't want to run on a vm, I followed some suggestions and set the extra data for the bios and a bunch of other options to match my actual computer. Windows 7 authentication didn't like that as now I have to authenticate again. I was hoping to restore if possible to the original config if possible. Are there default values set for a virtualbox machine? Can I just remove the extradata values to resort to what it was?

Thanks for the help.

[Perryg]

Run the same commands without any parameters. In other words leave the values blank, and they will be removed.

[ebrummer]

Run the same commands without any parameters. In other words leave the values blank, and they will be removed.

So are the original values before a user sets them with vboxmanage setextradata blank? Thanks, I'll try that.

[Perryg]

All VBox commands have a value. If you change the value you run the command with the new value. Run the same command with no value and it removes them. You can look at the *.vbox file, or the virtualbox.xml file and see them but do *not* edit those files. Use VBoxManage instead.