All computers report VMNet1 adapter address as: 00-50-56-C0-00-01 and VMNet8 adapter address as 00-50-56-C0-00-08
I have an inventory program called OCSreports or OCS and every computer with Sagemath on it is reporting as a duplicate and the VMNet8 address is given. For that reason I am surprised the VMplayer did not generate random NIC address instead of the same address for every installation! I need the addresses to be different. I got no responses when I posted to the VMplayer forum but did find that I should be able to modify the VMX file (only one I can find is SAGE) to generate a NIC address that I specify in the VMX file but modifying 100 VMX files to generate a specific address is not practical but at this point it is the only solution I have found and am not sure if it will work as I can set the address for ethernet0.addressType=Static and ehternet0.address="00:50:56:C0:00:09" and 10 and 11 etc. Yes VMplayer uses bridging to the physical NIC and then each VM use NAT. Thank you. Jim Pruitt >>> From: mabshoff <[email protected]> To: sage-support <[email protected]> Date: 1/13/2009 3:18 AM Subject: [sage-support] Re: VMPlayer uses same NIC address for VMNet1 andVMNet8 on all computers On Jan 12, 8:38 pm, Southerner <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, > I have installed Sagemath 3.2.2 on over 100 computers in 2 of our > labs. VMPlayer is genearating the same NIC address for all computers > for VMNet1 and VMNet8 with VMNet8 showing up on our network and being > duplicated over 100 times. What do you mean by that? The IP for the NIC? > Thsi is giving us fits. I see nothing in > VMPlayer 2.5.1 that allows me to change that NIC or even have it > generate a random NIC at install. These installs were all indivual > installs and not from images or clones. The VMPlayer is not capable of changing any settings of the VMware image, but the commercial version allows you that. I am pretty sure you can get an evaluation version. > I have posted to VMPlayer forum with no luck. I had thought that I > could modify the Sage .vmx file but the NIC in that file is not the > nic being generated (over 100 times). I also tried running > VMNetcfg.exe but see no such option in there. > > VMNet1 is bridged to the local NIC automatically. The 2 VMNet > adapters are using NAT. I haven't tried our VMWare image, but my guess would be that it is set up to use bridging per default. The interesting question now is if the Sage notebook works if the VMWare image would use NAT also for VMNet1. I need to download the image and try it I guess. > Is there any way to get the VMPlayer used in Sage to generate > different NIC addresses for the VMNet adapters or to change them now > that Sage and VMplayer have already been installed? My guess would be to use NAT or to fiddle with the build in dhcp server of VMPlayer in case that is possible. The second solution is certainly not enjoyable. > Thank you. Cheers, Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
