Hi All Sorry this is a bit of a new area for me, I've tried to read up but there's a lot to try to absorb quickly. I have a Dell Laptop which I run Fedora x86_64 on as the primary OS, I occasionally need to use Win 7 on it (which it's licensed for) however the Dell restore disk won't register properly in a VM so I have to run dual boot which is a pain. Reading the forums I think I need.... A Dell VMware BIOS with SLIC 2.1? Which I then tell the VMWare host to use that BIOS instead of it's default one I assume via a setting in a config file somewhere? I should then be able to install my genuine Dell Win 7 Pro and it'll register properly? Can I use the same VMware BIOS on my desktop machine if I need to run a temporary test environment? If someone could point me at either an existing BIOS or even better at instructions how to make my own BIOS (so I learn more) I'd be very grateful. Thanks all.
No replies in a day?????? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE someone help......this is going to be my excuse to get out of doing loads of things tomorrow as this simply HAS to be done!!!!! I've understood that I need to add the 440 file section to the cfg file, what I'm not certain about is how can I extract the VMBios if I'm using a Linux Host? Thanks
sebus I'd already read that thread, have I missed something? The tool in that thread is a windows tool for extracting a BIOS surely? I only have a linux host so how can I extract the BIOS using 'nix only? Regards