VMware Workstation (Multi-Brand) Bios Installer

Discussion in 'MDL Projects and Applications' started by searchengine, Oct 21, 2009.

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  1. woebetide

    woebetide MDL Member

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    #441 woebetide, Mar 31, 2011
    @tramp
    I've patched mine with REstorator, still works!
    So try to do it manually!:)
     
  2. tramp20

    tramp20 MDL Novice

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    #442 tramp20, Mar 31, 2011
    @woebetide
    I can now confirm all is ok (see my edited post).
     
  3. urie

    urie retired mod

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    #443 urie, Mar 31, 2011
    Yes confirmed bios patcher working ok bios is still version 315.
     
  4. mertoz

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    #444 mertoz, Apr 2, 2011
    Many thanks for this.
     
  5. Spider-Vice

    Spider-Vice MDL Member

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    #445 Spider-Vice, Apr 2, 2011
    Looks interesting, gonna try it very soon. But in what way does this benefit? :p
     
  6. MrFaust

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    #446 MrFaust, Apr 11, 2011
    download links for 315L in first post do not work... anyone have it on another fileshare?
     
  7. dareckibmw

    dareckibmw MDL Expert

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    #447 dareckibmw, Apr 11, 2011
    Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...
  8. searchengine

    searchengine Guest

    #448 searchengine, Apr 12, 2011
    Last edited by a moderator: Apr 12, 2011
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  9. sebus

    sebus MDL Guru

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    #449 sebus, Apr 12, 2011
    Maybe you should licence it to Vmware & they could just incorporte it into their installer...?

    Just kdding.:eek:

    sebus
     
  10. tcntad

    tcntad MDL Guru

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    #450 tcntad, Apr 12, 2011
    That'd be a great idea:p

    Having some smaller issues, vmware wont boot from usb, even though its suppose to work..
     
  11. user_hidden

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    #451 user_hidden, Apr 12, 2011
    appreciated if it comes to light.
     
  12. searchengine

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    #452 searchengine, Apr 12, 2011 (OP)
  13. tcntad

    tcntad MDL Guru

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    #453 tcntad, Apr 12, 2011
  14. poppyc

    poppyc MDL Novice

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    #454 poppyc, Apr 16, 2011
    This is a great little program. I am running windows 7 32 bit as a guest OS under VMplayer. Ran the program, modded the bios to reflect a Dell machine with SLIC 2.1. I then ran VMware Player and when the Windows 7 booted, I installed the Dell certificate and a Dell OEM key. All activated! Sweet!
     
  15. rapter

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    #455 rapter, Apr 20, 2011
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    Main patcher.


    Plesae relink upper tool- Old link dead....
     
  16. greyhavens49420

    greyhavens49420 MDL Novice

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    #456 greyhavens49420, Apr 20, 2011
    I'm sure the OP will re-up it but for anyone looking right now here is the main tool and it works wonderfully! Thanks so much OP! URL to VMBIOS_Selector_v315l in the first post: livinginthegrey.com/VMBIOS_Selector_v315l.exe
     
  17. bigpipo

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    #457 bigpipo, May 5, 2011
    Thanks for the download, I will be very useful
     
  18. MacMeck

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    #458 MacMeck, May 14, 2011
    Maybe this has been asked before, but I can't find the answer.

    What is actually patched here?
    a. VWware is patched: all new _and_ existing virtual machines will see the new BIOS
    b. VMware is patched: only new virtual machines will see the new BIOS
    c. actually the virtual machines are patched

    Probably that can be figured with some BIOS analysing tool. But hopefully somebody figured that out already, and is kind enough to answer the question :)
     
  19. Tito

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    #459 Tito, May 14, 2011
    Its 'a' ~ the internal bios of the vmware is patched!!
     
  20. MacMeck

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    #460 MacMeck, May 14, 2011
    Thanks for your confirming this, Tito.

    It was actually my guess since VMware is obviously not made for BIOS-virtualization, too. Otherwise there would probably be a possibility to do that without applying a patch to VMware itself :)
     
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