How to change the MAC address in Fusion?

hajime said:

please let me know how to change the MAC address of the virtual machine under Fusion?

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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

Are you required to use the vendors range or not? Can I put any vendor in there?

nospamboz said:

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

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steffi said:

Are you required to use the vendors range or not? Can I put any vendor in there?

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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 said:

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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steffi said:

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.

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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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ifconfig in linux shows the one I set and it's not in VM wares range.

balamw said:

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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steffi said:

ifconfig in linux shows the one I set and it's not in VM wares range.

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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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