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Thanks, Mihal.<br>
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That worked perfectly! To answer your first question, the guest is used to test various software, including an installation ISO. Part of the installer uses dmidecode -t17 to detect the amount of RAM and indicate to the user if they have enough memory to complete
the install. This works fine with real hardware, but the VM didn't report any of that, hence my problem.
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Best regards, <br>
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Rodney<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-11-09 06:34 PM, Mihai Hanor wrote:<br>
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<div>Why is it necessary for the guest?</div>
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<div>Run this command and see if it does what you want:</div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(247,247,247);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px">VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiExposeMemoryTable 1</span></div>
<div>Source: <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12017?cversion=0&cnum_hist=1#comment:5" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12017?cversion=0&cnum_hist=1#comment:5</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 at 22:29, Rodney Lott <<a href="mailto:rlott@evertz.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">rlott@evertz.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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First, my details:<br>
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Host machine:<br>
<blockquote>rlott@rlott-brix:~$ uname -a; lsb_release -a<br>
Linux rlott-brix 4.13.0-46-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 12 12:36:29 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<br>
No LSB modules are available.<br>
Distributor ID: Ubuntu<br>
Description: Ubuntu 17.10<br>
Release: 17.10<br>
Codename: artful<br>
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VirtualBox version: 5.2.6 r120293 (Qt5.9.1)<br>
Guest VM: Custom Ubuntu version<br>
<blockquote>root@magtestvm:/udata/home/etdev# uname -a; lsb_release<br>
Linux magtestvm 4.4.0-116-generic #140~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 16 09:25:20 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<br>
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I was wondering if there was a way to populate the DMI information to simulate memory banks for a Linux-based VM. If I do a dmidecode -t17 on my guest, I see the following:
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root@magtestvm:/udata/home/etdev# dmidecode -t17 <br>
# dmidecode 2.12<br>
SMBIOS 2.5 present.<br>
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Upon further examination, I saw in the full dmidecode output that no such memory bank sections existed.
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I found this section in the manual about setting DMI information: <a class="m_6200025433899957776m_8169301591767348655moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idm5744" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idm5744</a><br>
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I saw in this piece of the source code that it does support DMI Memory (type 17):
<a class="m_6200025433899957776m_8169301591767348655moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Devices/PC/DevFwCommon.cpp" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
https://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Devices/PC/DevFwCommon.cpp</a><br>
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So, is there such a call to set various things like this?<br>
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VBoxManage setextradata <my_guest_vm> VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiMemory/<some_key> <some_value><br>
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If so, would you point me to where a list of values for <some_key> would be? <br>
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Thanks very much!<br>
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Rodney<br>
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