Dear all,
I have some legacy software with a license that is tied to a combination of network MAC Address and ProcessorID on the physical hardware. The current server requires urgent replacement and the software vendor is no longer in existence, thus I cannot get a regenerated license key. I have been able to set the VMhost's MAC address to that of the old server with a spoofed MAC address.
I want to be able to spoof the output of a CPUID request from within a Hyper-V host such that it returns the value of the old hosts processor serial number. I've experimented with using Processor Compatibility mode but this only masks some processor feature sets, but not the actual serial number.
ie. a 'wmic cpu get processorid' does not change when Hyper-V processor Compatibility mode is utilised.
Googling this issue, I can see that there is a way to spoof the CPUID in VMWare as follows:
http://vknowledge.net/2014/04/17/how-to-fake-a-vms-guest-os-cpuid/
Can anyone enlighten me on how I might achieve a similar result in Hyper-V?
Thanks in advance,
Mike Squirrell