Hello, could anybody please let me know how to change the MAC address of the virtual machine under Fusion? I want WinXP installed on my virtual machine to have the same address (set by me) every time it is run. Thanks.
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How to change the MAC address in Fusion?
- Thread starter hajime
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There's a line in the VM's .vmx file (an editable text file) which controls
this. You should probably look on VMware's Fusion forum for details.
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/desktop/fusion
balamw
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You are limited to VMWare's range.
Plus, most software that is bound to a MAC address knows those ranges so you can't generally run them in a VM.
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It doesn't appear that I am limited in this release. I'm seeing that I can put anything in there and you notice that the GUI ("Advanced Options") lets you put anything in. It doesn't try to prevent you can add for Vendor.
balamw
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Interesting. Does it actually work the way you expect it to?
I know in VMWare Player you can enter whatever you want, but it just masks it to be within the range when you run the actual VM.
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balamw
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I'll have to check that out sometime. Do you have VMWare Tools for Linux Guests installed?
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