You can manually assign a MAC address to a virtual machine. You might want to assign a MAC address to guarantee that the same address is assigned to a virtual machine every time it powers on, even it is moved, or to be sure that a unique MAC address is provided for each virtual machine in a networked environment. Changeing a VMware VM's MAC Address from Automatic to Static. Edit the machine settings, go to the NIC Properties, and select manual for the MAC address and put in the desired MAC address. Experts Exchange Solution brought to you. I have tried to change this MAC address from automatic from static both through the GUI. Aug 12, 2013  Unfortunately you cannot just edit an automatically generated MAC address, because the ranges for manually and automatically generated MAC addresses are different and enforced by VMware. If you want to ensure a MAC address remains the same at all times even if you switch virtual network adapters, you may assign a static MAC address to the VM. Fortunately, VMware allows customers to circumvent this limitation by manually assigning a static MAC address to VMs. Of course this raises the question of how an administrator can either assign or determine a VM's MAC address without the aid of a guest operating system.

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The value for XX cannot be greater than 3F to avoid conflict with MAC addresses that are generated by the VMware Workstation and VMware Server products. The maximum value for a manually generated MAC address is shown in the sample.

When you create a VM on VMware ESXi, each network interface of the VM is assigned a dynamically generated MAC address. If you want to change this default behavior and assign a static MAC address to your VM, here is how to do it.

1975 hydra mac model 5 mini mac skid steer manual pdf. As you can see above, VMware's vSphere GUI client already has a menu for setting a static MAC address for a VM. However, this GUI-based method only allows you to choose a static MAC address from 00:50:56:xx:xx:xx, which is VMware-reserved MAC address range. If you attempt to set any arbitrary MAC address outside this MAC range, you will fail to launch the VM, and get the following error.

Then what if I want to assign any arbitrary MAC address to a VM?

Fortunately, there is a workaround to this limitation. The solution is, instead of using vSphere GUI client, editing .vmx file of your VM directly, after logging in to the ESXi host.

First, turn off the VM to which you want to assign a static MAC address.

Enable SSH access to your ESXi host if you haven't done it already. Then log in to the ESXi host via SSH.

Move to the directory where your VM's .vmx file is located:

Open .vmx file with a text editor, and add the following fields. Replace the MAC address field with your own.

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Now you should be able to launch a VM with the static MAC address you defined in .vmx file.

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I've run into the following problem on both VMware Fusion (for Macs) and with VMware ESXi/vSphere. Many of you are familiar with the problem, and it is described at VMware KB: 'Networking does not work in a cloned Linux virtual machine (2002767) .'

1. Create a CentOS VM.
   • This is a bare-bones VM with a minimal set of software and a functioning network stack. The idea is that we take the minimal VM, clone it and add more software later.
2. Clone that VM
3. VMware Fusion or vCenter will assign a new MAC address to the network interface on the cloned VM.
4. Linux doesn't know about this new MAC address and thus networking doesn't work. The file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethN has the MAC address of the interface on the first machine.
5. To fix this, I need to find the MAC address of the new VM, edit ifcfg-ethN and add this MAC to the HWADDR= field. I can't simply cut and paste the MAC into the field, so this can be an error-prone task, especially if I forget my pen and paper to write down the MAC.
6. (Bonus points) On the new VM, often eth0, eth1, etc. display in the wrong order. Fixing this involves an arcane dance around /etc/udev/rules.d

I can do this, but it's error prone and kind of a pain when I simply wanted to spin up a new VM to test something.

Is there a way to simplify this manual process? When you clone a new machine, how do you fix the MAC address problem?

1 Answer

Since device persistence stuff is just getting in the way for these VMs, rip it out:

• Completely remove the HWADDR and UUID lines from the ifcfg file, and
• Delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules before cloning

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That should let the eth0 with a new MAC address actually use the ifcfg-eth0 on initial boot.

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