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  • 1.  Assigning a MAC address to a virtual machine

    Posted Apr 15, 2009 07:41 PM

    I want to assign a MAC address to a vurtual machine. Can I just do the edit config and chnage the MAC address and set to maual?

    I'm a bit confused by some documentation I have (and haven't had time to test this out).

    Would I need to make the MAC 00:50:56:XX:XX:XX where XX's are the last ones of the origianl I want, or can I enter the whole MAC address I want?

    Has anyone done this?

    thanks



  • 2.  RE: Assigning a MAC address to a virtual machine

    Posted Apr 15, 2009 08:01 PM

    You can change the MAC address by editing th e.vmx file. You have to follow some rules. Read KB article 507 and 1008473 (in case of ESX/ESXi and a Windows guest) for more on this.


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  • 3.  RE: Assigning a MAC address to a virtual machine

    Posted Apr 16, 2009 11:27 AM

    Thanks. 1008473 answered my question. When I searched (before posting) I found the other articles about manually editing the vmx file, but nothing refering to device manager method which made me wonder if it really worked.

    thanks again

    dave