ACPI MSDM table (PC windows serial)

11/Feb/2024

To see the saved contents run:

sudo cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM

Example output:

MSDMUbLENOVOTP-N2U  PPTECFZGFK-ABCDE-12345-FGHIJ-67890

To get the data as binary:

sudo acpidump -n MSDM -b >  msdm.dat

Install "acpica-tools" package to use acpidump

VirtualBox can use this file in the VM to get the serial directly:

vboxmanage setextradata "VM name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/acpi/0/Config/CustomTable" /the/path/to/msdm.dat