On 2012-06-15 09:08, Simon Greenwood wrote: > Some OEM disks check for something in the system that identifies the > hardware as belonging to a maker so it really might depend on the vendor. > You could test it by installing Virtualbox in Windows as by default > Virtualbox identifies itself as a generic PC. You'll definitely need the > licence that came with the machine for it though.
These OEM disks are checking DMI BIOS data. You can set this data using VBoxManage. See: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html I suggest booting a Live CD on your physical hardware and using lshw or dmidecode to get the DMI data from the physical BIOS. Then fake it with VBoxManage. Regards, Tyler -- "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done." -- Alan Turing -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
