Vmware Bios Serial Number
Last week I wrote an article on how to ensure unique serial numbers are generated when cloning Mac OS X VMs in vCloud Director and as part of that research, I also came across another neat trick that I learned from one of our Engineers, Regis Duchesne. It turns outs that in recent releases of ESXi and.
- Is there a way to change the serial number of a VM in VMWare? For example: Can I change: VMWare-56 4d 2b e6. To something like: USE. 13 replies VMware.
- The Hard Disk Serial number attached to the activation file used on this virtual machine is a 8 character (letters and numbers) serial number. When I get 15 rep Ill upvote your comment.Thats largely the point of a VM.
Ever wonder how can you find laptop serial number using command prompt???
Here is a quick command that you can use to find the Serial Number of your machine.
To find the serial number, open command prompt (cmd) and type the following command.
Vm Serial Number
c:>wmic bios get serialnumber
This will give you your machine’s serial number by pulling the information from BIOS. This is how it will look like.
If you are interested in scripting the same visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/558124
WMIC (Windows Management Instrumentation Command-Line) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394531(VS.85).aspx
Hope you enjoy !!!
Update: Corrected syntax in the command
The manufacturer, as set in the BIOS of my VM, is 'VMWare'. I want to change that to other string. How to do that?
Canadian Luke1 Answer
See Virtual Machine and OEM license for Windows for the only way I could find of modifying the manufacturer.
According to it, if your computer is known to VMware, then by adding to the virtual machine's configuration file (vmx) the option:
Get Vmware Vm Serial Number
then the Manufacturer and Product Name strings in the virtual machine become the same as the Manufacturer and Product Name of the host system. This requires the destination host to have the same hardware as the guest.
This is as far as I will go, as modding the VMware BIOS is somewhat on the edge of legality. If you wish to go this way, this is a start.
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