Oliver Rath <rath@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi list, > > i have a little problem: a program of us is looking for the serial > number of the motherboard via > > dmidecode -s baseboard-serial-number > > which returns normally (i.e. Athlon Board) a 16-digits-number. > > But doing this in a virtualized (i.e. Ubuntu-oneric-11.10) box, the > command returns the empty string. > > Is there any possibility to set this number when defining the virtual > machine? I believe you only can specify type 0 and type 1 entries as text fields at the moment, while you are interested in type 2 (baseboard). But what you can do is load it as a binary blob. If you don't care about the values, you can probably just use a dump from a real machine. Something like dmidecode -t2 --dump-bin my-type2.bin and then kvm -smbios file=my-type2.bin ... might do the trick. Totally untested of course :-) Bjørn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
