{"id":1822,"date":"2014-02-03T10:43:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T10:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2014-02-03T10:43:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T10:43:34","slug":"make-a-vmware-mac-appear-as-a-real-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1822","title":{"rendered":"Make a VMware Mac Appear as a real model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open the VMX file for your guest in a text editor and add the following lines:<\/p>\n<p>board-id.reflectHost = &#8220;FALSE&#8221;<br \/>\nboard-id = <board-id><br \/>\nhw.model.reflectHost = &#8220;FALSE&#8221;<br \/>\nhw.model = <product-name>\nserialNumber.reflectHost = &#8220;FALSE&#8221;<br \/>\nserialNumber = <serial-number><br \/>\nsmbios.reflectHost = &#8220;FALSE&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a script that will dump the info from a real mac<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">#!\/bin\/bash<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#System board info<br \/>\n#By Daniel Shane<br \/>\n<br \/>\necho &quot;System Info&quot;<br \/>\necho &quot; &quot;<br \/>\necho &quot;Add or change the following to the VMX file inside the VM&quot;<br \/>\necho &quot; &quot;<br \/>\necho &quot;board-id.reflectHost = &quot;FALSE&quot;&quot;<br \/>\necho &quot;board-id = &quot;`ioreg -p IODeviceTree -r -n \/ -d 1 | grep -i board-id | awk '{ print $3 }' | cut -c 3- | rev | cut -c 3- | rev`&quot;&quot;<br \/>\necho &quot;hw.model.reflectHost = &quot;FALSE&quot;&quot;<br \/>\necho &quot;hw.model = &quot;`system_profiler SPHardwareDataType| grep -i identifier | awk '{ print $3 }'`&quot;&quot;<br \/>\necho &quot;serialNumber.reflectHost = &quot;FALSE&quot;&quot;<br \/>\necho &quot;serialNumber = &quot;`system_profiler SPHardwareDataType| grep -i &quot;serial number&quot; | awk '{ print $4 }'`&quot;&quot;<br \/>\necho &quot;smbios.reflectHost = &quot;FALSE&quot;&quot;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nexit 0<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open the VMX file for your guest in a text editor and add the following lines: board-id.reflectHost = &#8220;FALSE&#8221; board-id = hw.model.reflectHost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-on-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}