Changeset 40019 in vbox for trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_AdvancedTopics.xml

Timestamp:

Feb 7, 2012 1:46:41 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

76141

Message:

DevPcBios/DevFwCommon: enable DMI chassis information (type 3); provide DMI board information (type 2); DevACPI: support for a custom ACPI table; small documentation. Revised patch submitted by Jan Schunk, thanks!

File:

• trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_AdvancedTopics.xml (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_AdvancedTopics.xml

@@ -1340 +1340 @@
     with <screen>dmidecode -t0</screen>and the DMI system information can be
     obtained with <screen>dmidecode -t1</screen></para>
+  </sect1>
+
+  <sect1 id="changeacpicust">
+    <title>Configuring the custom ACPI table</title>
+
+    <para>VirtualBox can be configured to present an custom ACPI table to
+    the guest. Use the following command to configure this:</para>
+
+    <screen>VBoxManage setextradata "VM name"
+      "VBoxInternal/Devices/acpi/0/Config/CustomTable" "/path/to/table.bin"</screen>
+
+    <para>Configuring a custom ACPI table can prevent Windows
+      Vista and Windows 7 from asking for a new product key. On Linux hosts,
+      one of the host tables can be read from
+    <filename>/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/</filename>.</para>
   </sect1>