Hi, Why is it necessary for the guest?
Run this command and see if it does what you want: VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiExposeMemoryTable 1 Source: www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12017?cversion=0&cnum_hist=1#comment:5 Regards, Mihai On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 at 22:29, Rodney Lott <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, there. > > First, my details: > > Host machine: > > rlott@rlott-brix:~$ uname -a; lsb_release -a > Linux rlott-brix 4.13.0-46-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 12 12:36:29 UTC > 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > No LSB modules are available. > Distributor ID: Ubuntu > Description: Ubuntu 17.10 > Release: 17.10 > Codename: artful > > VirtualBox version: 5.2.6 r120293 (Qt5.9.1) > Guest VM: Custom Ubuntu version > > root@magtestvm:/udata/home/etdev# uname -a; lsb_release > Linux magtestvm 4.4.0-116-generic #140~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 16 > 09:25:20 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > I was wondering if there was a way to populate the DMI information to > simulate memory banks for a Linux-based VM. If I do a dmidecode -t17 on my > guest, I see the following: > > root@magtestvm:/udata/home/etdev# dmidecode -t17 > # dmidecode 2.12 > SMBIOS 2.5 present. > > Upon further examination, I saw in the full dmidecode output that no such > memory bank sections existed. > > I found this section in the manual about setting DMI information: > https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idm5744 > > I saw in this piece of the source code that it does support DMI Memory > (type 17): > https://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Devices/PC/DevFwCommon.cpp > > So, is there such a call to set various things like this? > > VBoxManage setextradata <my_guest_vm> > VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiMemory/<some_key> <some_value> > > If so, would you point me to where a list of values for <some_key> would > be? > > Thanks very much! > > Rodney > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev >
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