Hi,
I want to have a VM that is as close as possible to the physical host I want to virtualize. Have an ESXi host but I started with wks player as it seems easier to inherit some properties from the host.
vms parameters I've found after some days of research (mostly taken from discussion on making MacOS run on a PC):
smBIOS.assetTag = "XXXXXXX"
SMBIOS.model="Precision 5530"
SMBIOS.reflectHost = "TRUE"
SMBIOS.noOEMStrings = "TRUE"
smbios.addHostVendor = "TRUE"
serialNumber.reflectHost = "TRUE"
board-id.reflectHost = "TRUE"
hw.model.reflectHost = "TRUE"
these parameters though are not completely doing the job; below a table extracted using HWinfo of what matches and what doesn't (physical machine on the right, VM on the left):
on ESXi it's even worse because many of those parameters don't seem to work but we'll come back to that later. My main focus by now is on the BIOS and mainboard.
continuum had a look to your great guide and some of the mentioned vmx parameters aren't mentioned: perhaps you may want to add them;) being the expert on the topic: any other that good exist to fix the parts highlighted in yellow?
I think there's an option to have the EFI ROM (reported as BIOS) to be modified here:
but I really hope this can be modified through vmx parameters rather than modifying the ROM.
Thx!