[DISCUSSION] VirtualBox - Update, SLP & SLIC

I'm not offended, the opposite, i like what your doing and just want to make clear by using setextradata it doesn't activate, right?....
EG meaning: All i tried to make clear is that particular oembios doesn't preactivate with SLP sting in DMI area.

 

You are absoulutely right, by posting that information I mean that there is no way someone can activate using Microsoft's oembios fileset. The range does not contain DMI address range.

 

The whole thing, looks academic to me (so far)

sebus

 

As I am trying to find an easy way to add SLIC to VBox, I am putting some facts that I understood thru my tests, so that if I failed someone else can focus on what I think is important.
It's aimed at giving some insights as well.

 

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You mean alternative, as we already have a solution provided by atreyu!

sebus

 

Yes, I meant alternative. I already know about it. We are greatly indebted to him.

 

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Thanks for your continues support of your VBox patches, I appreciate it as I use VBox all the time @home and @work

 

@atreyu

much appreciated

 

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Atreyu, Atreyu, Atreyu


Thank you friend.....

 

Thank you so much atreyu...

 

@atreyu
I usually use VPC, but thought I'd give Virtualbox a try.
Your patch worked great
Thanks.

@FreeStyler
I tried your Hex edit trick too.
I can confirm it works on 32bit version.

 

Good to know these instructions are working on 32bit as well, thanks for reporting

 

Pardon my ignorance, but I've read the whole thread twice now and I'm still puzzled.

For SLIC, I use the vbslic.exe tool to insert whichever slic I want to VB. Good I got that covered.

For SLP, what is the method that activates XP with a certain set of OEMBIOS files?
I see posts about strings being too long, not each oembios set working, etc etc.

Can somebody please give me 2 hints:
1) what patch/edit to apply to VB/VM for it to have a certain SLP
2) which oembios sets I can use

Many thanks!

Edit: VB version I'm planning to use: 4.0.4

 

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Tremendous effort here. I have been following the progress for a while. Thanks to all who helped in the process, FreeStyler, Sebus and others good work Atreyu. Another path to making testing and development a little bit easier.

 

Trying to figure out how to activate my XP.

Got XP installed on VirtualBox which is running on Windows 7 (Dell). Could I activate it somehow?

thanks

 

REALLY???

Did you read any of this thread?? Particularly the first couple of posts???