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.