Hello all,
I have VMware workstation 9 running on OpenSuse 12.3. I built a VM and loaded Windows 7 in it. I did not initially have "SMBIOS.reflectHost = TRUE" in the vmx file, so WMware of course generated a UUID string for the VM.
Now I have a need to get the host machine's actual BIOS serial number to be passed through to Windows in the VM. I added "SMBIOS.reflectHost = TRUE" in the vmx file and removed the uuid.location and uuid.bios lines. When I boot up Windows again, running "wmic bios get serialnumber" in a command window still shows the same VMware UUID string that was generated when I first built the VM.
I have also tried adding "uuid.action = create" and "uuid.action = change" to the vmx file and those had no effect. No matter what I try, VMware seems to be dredging up that old UUID string from somewhere even though it's not in the vmx file. I have searched aroudn in my vmware directory on the host machine and don't see it lurking anywhere. Does anybody have any idea where it might be hiding?
Thanks,
Chuck