15 Jan
2026
15 Jan
'26
3:56 p.m.
On Thu Jan 15 11:19:34 2026 +0000, Hans Leidekker wrote:
That should be smbios_chassis. Note that this value is read from /sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_serial on Linux which can only be read by root and we fall back to returning the static string "Chassis Serial Number". My PC BIOS has "Default string" here which isn't very unique either so this may not be a problem in practice. Yes, I got tripped by the fact that here on Windows the field is the same as Win32_ComputerSystemProduct.IdentifyingNumber and Win32_Bios.SerialNumber, but chassis number looks like the correct field indeed.
-- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9887#note_127059