Set mainboard SN of guest

[awado]

Well, the title says it all. Can this be done and how?

 

[Stefan_R]

Yes, in the GUI under "<your VM> -> Options -> SMBIOS settings (type1)" you can set data like serial number, manufacturer, etc...

 

[awado]

Excellent. Thanks. Missed this completely.

 

[Ramo026]

Hello, I have used this method to set baseboard serialnumber for a windows guest, but it's not working.
using wmic baseboard get serialnumber in the powershell returns message No Instance Available.
How can I set CimInstance ClassName win32_baseboard for windows guest in proxmox?

 

[VictorSTS]

Which machine version do you have configured for that VM? (check with qm config VMID | grep machine)

Versions 8.1 and 8.2 use a 64 bit SMBIOS table that Windows doesn't understand, so it can't read from it an you'll get empty values for SMBIOS data like serialnumber or UUID. It's reported to QEMU and patched for QEMU v9.0 [1].

Change machine version to 8.0 and it should work [2].

[1] https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2008
[2] https://gitlab.com/imammedo/qemu/-/commit/13919efa4c4fc4d6810e21a5b94bc10119dd850c

 

[Ramo026]

Which machine version do you have configured for that VM? (check with qm config VMID | grep machine)

Versions 8.1 and 8.2 use a 64 bit SMBIOS table that Windows doesn't understand, so it can't read from it an you'll get empty values for SMBIOS data like serialnumber or UUID. It's reported to QEMU and patched for QEMU v9.0 [1].

Change machine version to 8.0 and it should work [2].

[1] https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2008
[2] https://gitlab.com/imammedo/qemu/-/commit/13919efa4c4fc4d6810e21a5b94bc10119dd850c

Thank you for your reply.
I have made to overcome to this issue by passing dmidecode -t 2 to the guest by the qm set <vmID> --args "-smbios type=2,serial=qwerty1234"

 

[VictorSTS]

Didn't work just changing machine version to <=8.0 ?

 

[Ramo026]

Didn't work just changing machine version to <=8.0 ?

The machine version were 8.0 from the beggining