virtualbox-generate-nvram-bin-file

Usage

        # import generate_nvram_bin_file function to shell
        source "virtualbox-generate-nvram-bin-file.sh"

        # execute function
        generate_nvram_bin_file "${name}" "${data}" "${guid}"

        # nvramgen is a short alias for generate_nvram_bin_file
        nvramgen "${name}" "${data}" "${guid}"

Dependencies

bash >= 4.3, coreutils, xxd, gzip

Examples

generate_nvram_bin_file "system-id" "hAA" "7C436110-AB2A-4BBB-A880-FE41995C9F82"

nvramgen "lang" "$(printf 'en:us' | xxd -p)" "aabbccddeeff00112233445566778899"

Loading the generated binary files into the virtual machine NVRAM

Load the generated binary files into VirtualBox VM NVRAM with the builtin command dmpstore in the VM EFI Internal Shell, for example dmpstore -all -l fs0:\system-id.bin

DmpStore source code is available at the VirtualBox code repository, mirrored here.