Oracle VM VirtualBox reports vendor product data for its virtual hard disks which consist of hard disk serial number, firmware revision and model number. These can be changed using the following commands:
$ VBoxManage setextradataVM-name \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/SerialNumber" "serial" $ VBoxManage setextradataVM-name \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/FirmwareRevision" "firmware" $ VBoxManage setextradataVM-name \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/ModelNumber" "model"
The serial number is a 20 byte alphanumeric string, the firmware revision an 8 byte alphanumeric string and the model number a 40 byte alphanumeric string. Instead of Port0, referring to the first port, specify the desired SATA hard disk port.
The above commands apply to virtual machines with an AHCI (SATA) controller. The commands for virtual machines with an IDE controller are:
$ VBoxManage setextradataVM-name \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/piix3ide/0/Config/PrimaryMaster/SerialNumber" "serial" $ VBoxManage setextradataVM-name \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/piix3ide/0/Config/PrimaryMaster/FirmwareRevision" "firmware" $ VBoxManage setextradataVM-name \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/piix3ide/0/Config/PrimaryMaster/ModelNumber" "model"
For hard disks, you can mark the drive as having a non-rotational medium by using the following command:
$ VBoxManage setextradataVM-name \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/NonRotational" "1"
Additional three parameters are needed for CD/DVD drives to report the vendor product data:
$ VBoxManage setextradataVM-name \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/ATAPIVendorId" "vendor" VBoxManage setextradataVM-name \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/ATAPIProductId" "product" VBoxManage setextradataVM-name \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/ATAPIRevision" "revision"
The vendor id is an 8 byte alphanumeric string, the product id an 16 byte alphanumeric string and the revision a 4 byte alphanumeric string. Instead of Port0, referring to the first port, specify the desired SATA hard disk port.