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            <h1>Customize the VirtualBox BIOS Image</h1>
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          <p>From the VirtualBox documentation:<br />
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.</p>

<h2>Method 1 - Editing the VirtualBox VM XML</h2>

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	<li>Make sure the VM being modified is not running</li>
	<li>Close the VirtualBox UI</li>
	<li>Open File Explorer</li>
	<li>Navigate to the VM directory</li>
	<li>Open the .vbox file in a text editor</li>
	<li>Search for BIOS</li>
	<li>Add the following line inside the BIOS node
	<p>&lt;logo displaytime=&quot;0&quot; fadein=&quot;true&quot; fadeout=&quot;true&quot; imagepath=&quot;C:\Full\Path\to\BIOS.bmp&quot; /&gt;</p>
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	<li>Change the imagePath to the full path to the custom .bmp file</li>
	<li>Save the changes to the .vbox file</li>
	<li>Start the VM normally to test</li>
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<h2>Method 2 - Using the VBoxManage Command</h2>

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	<li>Make sure the VM being modified is not running</li>
	<li>Launch command prompt as administrator and run the following commands
	<div class="codeBlock">cd %programfiles%\Oracle\VirtualBox<br />
	VBoxManage modifyvm &quot;CaseSensitiveVMName&quot; --bioslogoimagepath &quot;C:\Full\Path\to\BIOS.bmp&quot;</div>
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	<li>Start the VM normally to test</li>
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