Customize the VirtualBox BIOS Image

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Published on April 30, 2022 9:00:30 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6OiCMDORMo

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Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0383.html

From the VirtualBox documentation:
The image must be an uncompressed 256 color BMP file without color space information (Windows 3.0 format). The image must not be bigger than 640 x 480.
 
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Method 1 - Editing the VirtualBox VM XML
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   01. Make sure the VM being modified is not running
   02. Close the VirtualBox UI
   03. Open File Explorer
   04. Navigate to the VM directory
   05. Open the .vbox file in a text editor
   06. Search for BIOS
   07. Add the following line inside the BIOS node
         ≪logo displaytime="0" fadein="true" fadeout="true" imagepath="C:\Full\Path\to\BIOS.bmp" /≫
   08. Change the imagePath to the full path to the custom .bmp file
   09. Save the changes to the .vbox file
   10. Start the VM normally to test
 
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Method 2 - Using the VBoxManage Command
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   01. Make sure the VM being modified is not running
   02. Launch command prompt as administrator and run the following commands
         cd %programfiles%\Oracle\VirtualBox
         VBoxManage modifyvm "CaseSensitiveVMName" --bioslogoimagepath "C:\Full\Path\to\BIOS.bmp"
   03. Start the VM normally to test
 


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