Opened 13 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#10186 closed defect (obsolete)
WMI shows corrupt battery instance under Win32_Battery
| Reported by: | Jani | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 4.1.8 |
| Keywords: | wmi battery corrupt characters | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Windows |
Description
Environment: Hardware: HP 6730b notebook VirtualBox 4.1.8 Windows 7 x86 host OS Windows XP SP3 guest OS
Symptom: When querying the Win32_Battery instance on the Windows guest, it shows a name containing messed up characters. This causes some WMI-based inventory programs to generate hard-to-parse output on virtual machines.
Expected behavior: Battery info should be built up of accurate, printable strings.
Fact:
- Guest OS language is irrelevant to the problem (tested on English and Hungarian XP).
- When rebooted the host device, the battery instance name has changed, but remained.
- The OS on the physical host shows correct battery info, the issue can be reproduced only in the virtual machines.
- Device manager on the guest shows standard data, no corrupted characters shown.
- The issue has been there in VirtualBox 3.2.6 or even older versions.
Attachments (2)
Change History (4)
by , 13 years ago
| Attachment: | WMIExplorer.PNG added |
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comment:1 by , 11 years ago
| Component: | 3D support → other |
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comment:2 by , 8 years ago
| Resolution: | → obsolete |
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| Status: | new → closed |
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Output of WMI Explorer tool, showing the corrupt string