setting motherboard serial number?

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?

Tfh!

Regards,

Oliver

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