From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Rath Subject: setting motherboard serial number? Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:46:05 +0100 Message-ID: <4ED117CD.6080808@mglug.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from phineas.fibbs.org ([109.234.106.32]:43952 "EHLO mail.fibbs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753365Ab1KZQxs (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:53:48 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.fibbs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C2E1E600B for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:46:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.fibbs.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.fibbs.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10022) with ESMTP id scT+XLYAhALN for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:46:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from phineas.fibbs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.fibbs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 237851E600A for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:46:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from host-80-81-18-2.customer.m-online.net ([80.81.18.2]) by phineas.fibbs.org with SMTP ID 481 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:46:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.172.254] (host-80-81-18-2.customer.m-online.net [80.81.18.2]) by mail.fibbs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B2E461E600A for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:46:04 +0100 (CET) Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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