Run Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation of HP in a Virtual Machine

I bought Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation of HP.

Then, whilst the installation, it says, it has not found any HP platform and it may not be installed. That's correct. I don't own a server of HP but a virtual machine running under VirtualBox.

So I gotta help my bought software along. I emphasize the word "bought". I own it and I want to use it. Why the "bios hardlock" to HP hardware? Sure, the intension of HP is clear. But that's probably not legal in Germany.

Luckily I want "Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation of Hewlett Packard" (in german) to be installed in a VirtualBox VM.

How do I solve that problem?

After a little search I do find out, that the software searches for a HP-BIOS, before it allows Windows being installed.

VBoxManage setextradata "VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSVendor" "HP"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemVendor" "HP"

And now it's possible to install Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation under VirtualBox. Yay!

Here's a list of possible BIOS settings for VirtualBox:
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#changedmi

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation von HP..
Read the english version of this post ... habe ich gekauft. Und auf einmal heißt es bei der Installation, es habe keine HP Plattform gefunden und könne deswegen nicht installiert werden. Stimmt. Ich habe hier keinen HP-Server, sondern eine virtuelle Mas

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Here at my office we had the same issue, and your fix worked perfectly! Thanks a lot

#1 Jeremías Díaz am 21.12.2012 17:43 (Antwort)

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