Virtual Machine Virtual Motherboard Name

[RanjnaAggarwal]

Anyone who can tell me Virtual Machine Virtual Motherboard Name?

[RvdNieuwendijk]

Afaik the VMware virtual motherboard is called "440BX Desktop Reference Platform" based on the Intel 440BX chipset.

Regards, Robert

[RanjnaAggarwal]

is that same in 5 because that was the name in vsphere 4?

[RvdNieuwendijk · Accepted solution]

I am not sure, because we are still running vSphere 4.1. But on VMware Workstation 8.0.4 the virtual motherboard name is also "440BX Desktop Reference Platform". So on vSphere 5 it will probably be the same.

If you have a Microsoft Windows computer running on vSphere 5, you can get the motherboard name by running the following PowerShell command in the virtual machine:

Get-WMIObject win32_baseboard | Select-Object Product

[RanjnaAggarwal]

But how to check this in linux machine and machines those do not have Power Shell?

[admin]

Ranjna Aggarwal wrote:

But how to check this in linux machine and machines those do not have Power Shell?

For Linux,

# dmidecode | grep -C 3 'Base Board'

[RanjnaAggarwal]

Ok....Thanks and for those windows operating those do not have option for windows power shell lilke windows 2000?

[RvdNieuwendijk]

For Windows computers that don't have PowerShell you can use VBScript. Save the following VBscript code in a file called Motherboard.vbs and run it with:

cscript Motherboard.vbs //nologo

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject( "winmgmts://" & strComputer & "/root/cimv2" )
If Err.Number Then ShowError()
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( "Select * from Win32_BaseBoard", , 48 )
If Err.Number Then ShowError()
For Each objItem in colItems
  WScript.Echo objItem.Product
Next

[RanjnaAggarwal]

This script i have to create or by default available.

[RvdNieuwendijk]

cscript.exe is standard available on every Windows computer. So the command in the first quote will run if you save the code in the second quote as file "Motherboard.vbs".

[RanjnaAggarwal]

Ok.....Thanks Again for your quick response

[RanjnaAggarwal]

script not working.

[Iwan_Rahabok]

I ran the powershell on windows2008 VM on vSphere 5.1. The HW version is version 9.

The answer: 440BX Desktop Reference Platform