Oct 27, 2015 Dear All, could someone point out how to change the UUID and serial number of a lenovo b590 bios? A friend of mine owns multiple of the same notebooks and flashed all with a whitelist removed bios. This has set all the uuid's to the same and has set the serial numbers to the same. Is there a way to change the serial number of a VM in VMWare? For example: Can I change: VMWare-56 4d 2b e6. To something like: USE. 14 replies VMware. Change Serial Number on VM in VMWare 5.5. We have legacy software which is licensed via the 'Machine Serial Number' from a company that doesn't exist anymore.
Change Bios Serial Number Vmware
Hi,
We are in the process of upgrading our environment from 3.5 to 4.1 U1. We are building our hosts with a fresh install of vSphere and migrating our guest servers to the new hosts.
Change Bios Serial Number Lenovo
However we have an application installed on a server that uses the BIOS Serial Number and the MAC address of the NIC for licencing. When we view the licence information it shows the BIOS serial number, machine name and MAC address. Obviously the machine name wont be changing when we migrate to a new host
However I would like to upgrade the NIC to a VMXNET3 card and this will change the MAC address. Would there be any problems assigning a manual MAC address to the NIC using the MAC address of the original NIC?
Will the BIOS Serial Number change when we migrate the server to the new host?
When I display the licence information for the application the BIOS serial number is displayed as: BIOS SERIAL NUMBER: VMware-50 15 0a 30 59 1c 8f c3-8e e7 08 b6 c2 12 23 65.
The HEX numbers in the BIOS serial number displayed are the same as the uuid.bios in the server vmx file. If the BIOS serial number were to change, would I be able to edit the vmx file and change the uuid.bios?
Thanks
