I'm trying to get a Windows 2003 Enterprise guest from a physical Dell PE1850 to run in ESXi 5. I'm trying to get it to run with your bios440, but I keep getting activation popup. I've tried running OEMSCAN in safemode and it validates as a Dell, but it won't activate. I've been chasing my tail for over a week on this and I'm at a loss.
The OS is already activated on the physical Dell server with the Dell OEM license. I'm trying to virtualize it on our ESXi 5 server so I can use the older server for other purposes. The only reason I ran OEMSCAN was to verify that it was showing up as a dell bios. I'm going to try making a fresh copy of the physical server and run it with your bios to see if that fixes the issue.
After making a fresh copy of the physical server to ESXi 5, it boots up with no activation issues using the Dell bios440 that Sebus posted. I can now stop pulling my hair out over this issue and get on with my migration. Thank you!!
I can get the Windows Server 2003 R2 (DELL OEM) to activated fine without modded bios but can't get the Windows XP SP3 (DELL OEM) CD to do so. I even try to copy over the oembios.* files from the Server CD to the XP. Am i missing something? Thanks
so with the native unmodded bios from Vsphere 4.1 (build 260247) . OEMBIOS tools will show DELL OEMBIOS.CAT CRC=99735910 for Windows Server 2003 but none for Windows XP ... not sure which build of vsphere that you run that has Genuine C&C set. Thanks
Man, if you have INTEL processor it will show you Genuine (because that is what the processor reports), it has nothing to do with vsphere BIOS, but is enough for XP to activate) sebus
I'm not sure why either but here is what I find out so far using oembios Test v1.1 on different Vsphere EXSi Vsphere 5.0 (Build 469512) XP = Dell CRC=63875D1F XP = Dell CRC=B6F0EEFD 2K3 = Dell CRC=99735910 2K3 = Dell CRC=C20D8FF5 2k3 = Fujitsu CRC=FB6F8F08 2k3 = HP CRC=C0023D89 2k3 = HP CRC=D107c3EA Vsphere 5.0 (DELL customized build (469512)) XP = none 2K3 = Dell CRC=99735910 2k3 = Fujitsu CRC=FB6F8F08 2k3 = HP CRC=C0023D89 2k3 = HP CRC=D107c3EA and oembios didn't detect Dell CRC=C20D8FF5. interesting Vsphere 4.1.0 build 502767 XP = none 2K3 = Dell CRC=99735910 2k3 = Fujitsu CRC=FB6F8F08 2k3 = HP CRC=C0023D89 2k3 = HP CRC=D107c3EA
I tested on Dell R710 Xeon X5650. Dell Customized build is from support.dell.com VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.0.0-469512.x86_64-Dell_Customized_RecoveryCD.iso (290MB) I think you're right about me being out of luck with XP and will only be using bios440 file to get XP activated. Thanks again
no idea, I remove it and then copy over the new one. And have you set your server in maintenance mode?
i'm not set my server in maintenance mode, are you set your server in maintenance mode before modding?, it's necesary to do that? hmm i test that in my test server tomorrow
