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dirtdevil01
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Allowing WMI detection of bare metal hardware through vm.

I have a vm installed on a dell workstation. My bare metal OS is ubuntu and my vm is windows XP. We have a script hosted on a server that scans all of our IPs and gives stats on the OS installed on that ip such as memory, cpu and the dell service tag number all via WMI call. When that script scans my windows xp vm, it does not detect the service tag number on the bare metal OS. Because of that the service tag number on my bare metal doesn't show up in the report next to my windows xp machine.

Is there a way to have the baremetal os blindly pass hardware environment specs to the vms that sit on it so when scanned, those vms return that env as well as the service tag number.

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continuum
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try
SMBIOS.reflect.Host = "TRUE"
in the vmx-file


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dirtdevil01
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Didn't work.

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continuum
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then you are out of luck


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Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...

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