Linux VMWare BIOS Extraction

More of a note to self than a blog...

objcopy /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -O binary -j bios440 --set-section-flags bios440=a b.z
perl -e 'use Compress::Zlib; my $v; read STDIN, $v, 217218; $v = uncompress($v); print $v;' < b.z > bios440_mod.rom

cp oembios440.rom /srv/projects/vm/nýttkjöt/
echo "bios440.filename = \"oembios440.rom\"" >> /srv/projects/vm/nýttkjöt/nýjar_vm.vmx

Reference:
VMware BIOS modification - for Linux users
Modifying The VMware BIOS
Persistent BIOS Infection