| 1 | <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="changevpd">
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| 4 | <title>Configuring the Hard Disk Vendor Product Data (VPD)</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>
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| 8 | Oracle VM VirtualBox reports vendor product data for its virtual hard
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| 9 | disks which consist of hard disk serial number, firmware
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| 10 | revision and model number. These can be changed using the
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| 11 | following commands:
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| 12 | </p>
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| 13 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxManage setextradata <varname>VM-name</varname> \
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| 14 | "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/SerialNumber" "serial"
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| 15 | $ VBoxManage setextradata <varname>VM-name</varname> \
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| 16 | "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/FirmwareRevision" "firmware"
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| 17 | $ VBoxManage setextradata <varname>VM-name</varname> \
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| 18 | "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/ModelNumber" "model"</pre>
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| 19 | <p>
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| 20 | The serial number is a 20 byte alphanumeric string, the firmware
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| 21 | revision an 8 byte alphanumeric string and the model number a 40
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| 22 | byte alphanumeric string. Instead of Port0, referring to the
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| 23 | first port, specify the desired SATA hard disk port.
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| 24 | </p>
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| 25 | <p>
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| 26 | The above commands apply to virtual machines with an AHCI (SATA)
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| 27 | controller. The commands for virtual machines with an IDE
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| 28 | controller are:
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| 29 | </p>
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| 30 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxManage setextradata <varname>VM-name</varname> \
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| 31 | "VBoxInternal/Devices/piix3ide/0/Config/PrimaryMaster/SerialNumber" "serial"
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| 32 | $ VBoxManage setextradata <varname>VM-name</varname> \
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| 33 | "VBoxInternal/Devices/piix3ide/0/Config/PrimaryMaster/FirmwareRevision" "firmware"
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| 34 | $ VBoxManage setextradata <varname>VM-name</varname> \
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| 35 | "VBoxInternal/Devices/piix3ide/0/Config/PrimaryMaster/ModelNumber" "model"</pre>
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| 36 | <p>
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| 37 | For hard disks, you can mark the drive as having a
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| 38 | non-rotational medium by using the following command:
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| 39 | </p>
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| 40 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxManage setextradata <varname>VM-name</varname> \
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| 41 | "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/NonRotational" "1"</pre>
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| 42 | <p>
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| 43 | Additional three parameters are needed for CD/DVD drives to
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| 44 | report the vendor product data:
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| 45 | </p>
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| 46 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxManage setextradata <varname>VM-name</varname> \
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| 47 | "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/ATAPIVendorId" "vendor"
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| 48 | VBoxManage setextradata <varname>VM-name</varname> \
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| 49 | "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/ATAPIProductId" "product"
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| 50 | VBoxManage setextradata <varname>VM-name</varname> \
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| 51 | "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/ATAPIRevision" "revision"</pre>
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| 52 | <p>
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| 53 | The vendor id is an 8 byte alphanumeric string, the product id
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| 54 | an 16 byte alphanumeric string and the revision a 4 byte
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| 55 | alphanumeric string. Instead of Port0, referring to the first
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| 56 | port, specify the desired SATA hard disk port.
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| 57 | </p>
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| 58 | </body>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | </topic>
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