Configuring the BIOS DMI information

[king]

Hello

Thanks to dmidecode i know that some system informations are set by default in the VM. I know that one may change them, but i was wondering, if it is possible to reset them, so that they appear unknown or unspecified. I tried:

VBoxManage setextradata “MyXP_VM” “VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiProcVersion” “Pentium(R) III”

but it doesn't seem to work.

Thanks again for the help, and sorry for being a pain...

Best regards,

[Perryg]

If you have set extradata and now you want it to go back to default just run the same command without a value.

IE:
VBoxManage setextradata “MyXP_VM” “VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiProcVersion” “Pentium(R) III”
to remove the above run the following
VBoxManage setextradata “MyXP_VM” “VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiProcVersion”

[rpmurray]

Actually I believe in order to have them appear as unknown or unspecified you need to use:

VBoxManage setextradata “MyXP_VM” “VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiProcVersion” "<EMPTY>"

From the User Manual: If a DMI string is not set, the default value of VirtualBox is used. To set an empty string use "<EMPTY>".

[dlharper]

No, Perry is right here. If you do what rpmurray suggests you will get a processor called "<EMPTY>".

The reason it is put this way in the manual is quite simply that is difficult to write a sentence that seems to make sense but includes the null string. To write:

• You have to enter .

or something like that make people think there is a typographical error.

[rpmurray]

My bad. I thought there might be a difference between sending an empty string "" which removes the setextradata entry in the vbox setting file (and therefore VirtualBox will use the default value for DmiProcVersion) and sending "<EMPTY>" which I assumed meant that instead of using the default value the VM would report it as undefined. I should have tested this first.