I wanted to migrate a physical server, including its application, to a virtual server and reinstall everything from scratch (not a P2V migration). For this, I had to use the manufacturer’s original installation media because it involved ROK licenses.
During the installation in a VM under VirtualBox, we received a message stating that the installation media was vendor-branded, and the installation aborted.
You can assign a vendor BIOS tag to the VM in VirtualBox to enable the installation to work. I was able to implement this successfully with Fujitsu and HP.
I used the following commands to add the vendor BIOS settings:
Fujitsu ROK
VBoxManage setextradata "Analysis" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemVendor" "FUJITSU"
VBoxManage setextradata "Analysis" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSVendor" "FUJITSU // Phoenix Technologies Ltd."HP ROK
VBoxManage setextradata "VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSVendor" "HP"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemVendor" "HP"