Re: Re: changing mac addresses of clients in vmware

[Luke Eckley <luke () xifos org>]

I have successfully changed MAC addresses in Windows by accessing 
the NIC in device manager.

I have also changed it in different Linux distributions using
different methods.  The best way to find out how is 'man ifconfig'.

Since OpenBSD 3.8 ( current version 3.9 ) it has been possible to
change the MAC using ifconfig.

These all work under VMware.  The only problem can be that the MAC 
issued by VMware will show until the guest OS changes it during the
boot process.

Another solution is to hack the actual VMware binaries to allow for
different MAC address in the VMware settings.  There is a patch for
an older version of VMware written by Kostya Kortchinsky that allowed
this. Search for vmpatch.c 

My 2 cents

Luke Eckley