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The serial number is a 20 byte alphanumeric string, the firmware revision an 8 byte alphanumeric string and the model number a 40 byte alphanumeric string. Instead of “Port0” (referring to the first port), specify the desired SATA hard disk port.
Additional three parameters are needed for CD/DVD drives to report the vendor product data:
VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/ATAPIVendorId" "vendor"
VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/ATAPIProductId" "product"
VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/Port0/ATAPIRevision" "revision"
The vendor id is a 8 byte alphanumeric string, the product id an 16 byte alphanu- meric string and the revision a 4 byte alphanumeric string. Instead of “Port0” (referring to the first port), specify the desired SATA hard disk port.
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