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cat /proc/cpuinfo

dmidecode dmidecode -t0 dmidecode -t1 lspci

If you've gotten frustated at Windows XP asking to activate yet again after changing some parameters on your virtual machine...

The DMI data VirtualBox provides to guests can be changed for a specific VM. Use the following commands to configure the DMI BIOS information: VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSVendor" \ "Host BIOS Vendor" VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSVersion" \ "Host BIOS Version" VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSReleaseDate" \ "Host BIOS Release Date" VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSReleaseMajor" \ 1 VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSReleaseMinor" \ 2 VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSFirmwareMajor" \ 3 VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSFirmwareMinor" \ 4 If a DMI string is not set, the default value of VirtualBox is used. To set an empty string use "". Changing this information can be necessary to provide the DMI information of the host to the guest to prevent Windows from asking for a new product key. On Linux hosts the DMI BIOS information can be obtained with dmidecode -t0 and the DMI system information can be obtained with dmidecode -t1


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Feb 6, 2010

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