Base board serial number in Windows VM

Gge7UE5yMo

Hello, I am new to XCP-NG recently migrated from Hyper-V and hoping for some help with regards to using/getting the base board (motherboard) serial number in a Windows VM;
For example, if I run the command below from a windows PC 'cmd prompt' it returns correctly the information requested in the get

wmic baseboard get product,manufacturer,version,serialnumber

But if I do this from inside a XCP-ng Windows VM, it's unable to get any information, with a message 'No Instance Available'

I was wondering if there is something I can do to allow this information to pass through?

And the reason for this strange requirement is for a specific software that I need to run, as it licenses against the motherboard serial number.
Any help will be very much appreciated, TIA.

olivierlambert

Hi,

You need to do (at VM creation) "Copy host BIOS". I don't remember how to do it after VM creation right now (at least not on the top of my head)

Gge7UE5yMo

@olivierlambert Thank you for your swift reply!

I think that I just stumbled across this moments after I posted my question, and have been 'playing' with these settings, it looks like I need to have the boot firmware set to bios, to allow the selection of the check box 'Copy host BIOS strings to VM', which causes a new problem as the disk I've exported from Hyper-V needs UEFI to boot

Anyway thanks so much for pointing this out, it gives me a better understanding.

olivierlambert

I see, so you might need the UEFI info from the host or something similar I don't know if this exists, I have to admit I'm not using Windows in production myself.