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Yan Li wrote:
> 
> If you can tell me what manufacture vendor string is in Virtual PC I
> can make another similar patch using dmi_name_in_vendors().
> 

Supposedly "Microsoft Corporation", "Virtual Machine".  No idea what 
pre-MS versions of VPC return.

	-hpa