Guest Hardware Serial Number

I'm testing some reporting software and I have several virtual machines using Parallels 8/9. I also have several virtual machines using VMWare Fusion. VMWare creates dummy hardware serial numbers for the OS X guests using "VM" followed by a random serials of characters. This works well. However, Parallels insists on using the host hardware serial number for every OS X guest. This obviously causes problems for my reporting software that bases client recognition on hardware serial numbers. It thinks that all of the VMs and their respective hosts are the same machines. At least, the ones running on Parallels. Is there a way, even via terminal, that I can change the guest serial numbers to something other than the host's serial number?

Thanks,

JDHatman

 

Hi JDHatman,

Please respond to the private mesaage with the information requested.

Thanks,
Looran

 

Hi,

I am having the exact same problem as JDHatman. What was the solution to the issue.

Many thanks

Matt

 

There hasn't been a solution yet. Parallels has opened a ticket with their engineering team to work on a solution.

 

Thanks for the reply, i'll look out for the fix if/when it appears.

cheers

Matt

 

I'm guessing this would be against Apple's license it it were true.. The same applies to using the same Recovery image in Mavericks for every other Mavericks VM in the future would be against their license too..

I dunno how VMWare does it,

 

Bit confused what are you saying would be against the licence. Spoofing the serial number?

 

That's my theory anyway.

 

Has this been resolved or is possible? VMWare Fusion does this and I would hate to have to switch because of it. We really need to be able to create a unique VM environment that is separate from the host computer. The UUID and MAC address are unique but not the hardware/system volume ID

 

Also tendering our interest here in the unique serial / hardware / system IDs. We utilise MunkiReport (2, PHP edition) as our reporting base and we would rather not fork it just to cater for GOSes.