[one-users] network problem with VMWare ESXi

[Shi Jin]

Thank you very much.
This line does solve the problem.
Could you please add this to the code?

Thanks.
Shi

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Javier Fontan <jfontan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>
>
>
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