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Win32_DiskDrive Serial Number in VMWare

I've a VMWare Workstation 10.0 Virtual Machine with 1 hard disk configured.

When I use wbemtest to perform the following query in WMI:

SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive

I see the serial number is null.

How can I get VMWare to populate this field? I can't find anywhere in the UI, I've tried adding:

ddb.serialNumber = "dfaklsjdfkajlsd"

to the .vmdk file but this seems to have done nothing.

Any ideas?

Solution

  • I figured it out myself.

    In VMWare Workstation if your virtual hard disk type is SCSI then I can find no way of having a serial number. However, create a virtual disk with a type of IDE and it'll have a serial number by default.