[one-users] network problem with VMWare ESXi

[Tino Vazquez]

Hi Shi Jin,

Glad this worked. I cannot include that in the code since it is a
paramenter set in the ".vmx" file descriptor of the VM. Instead, I've
updated the documentation (see last lines of [1]) to warn users about
this issue.

Regards,

-Tino

[1] http://opennebula.org/doku.php?id=documentation:rel1.4:vmwareg

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Shi Jin <jinzishuai at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>> Javier Fontan, Grid & Virtualization Technology Engineer/Researcher
>> DSA Research Group: http://dsa-research.org
>> Globus GridWay Metascheduler: http://www.GridWay.org
>> OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine: http://www.OpenNebula.org
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Shi Jin, Ph.D.
>