[one-users] network problem with VMWare ESXi

[Javier Fontan]

Hello,

I don't know much about VMWare but in the webpage you linked there is
a way to enable the use of any mac address:

ethernet0.checkMACAddress = "FALSE"

Perhaps you can solve the issue with this parameter.

The prefix for mac addresses must be 2 bytes as the other 4 bytes are
filled with the ip address in hexadecimal.

Bye

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Shi Jin <jinzishuai at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Tino. This is very helpful.
>
>>
>>   1) Create a Virtua Network in OpenNebula name "myNW" with
>> BRIDGE="one-net", and network address XX.XX.XX.XX
>>   2) Add to the VM template a NIC line like
>>
>> NIC=[NETWORK="myNW", MAC="XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX"]
>>
> However, I followed your instruction and got a problem starting the VM:
> 00:03:c0:a8:01:81 is not allowed as a static ethernet address. Invalid
> MAC address specified. Failed to configure ethernet0.
> I then found out that for static MAC address, VMWare only allows the
> range of 00:50:56:xx:xx:xx (see
> http://www.sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-network-advanced.html)
> This raises the problem that we can only specify the first two
> segments in MAC_PREFIX. When I set MAC_PREFIX   = "00:50:56", the
> resulting vnet is not functioning properly. For example, it gives
> MAC=00:01:b7:d4:92:81, which is not as expected.
>
> Is there a solution to this?
> Thank you very much.
>
> Shi
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