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I installed CentOS 6.X with VMWare Fusion.
It looks like the mac address and nic names changes randomly.
eth8 and eth9, totally weird.
Anyone know why?
P.S VMWare pops a dialog asks me if I moved or copied the VM, although I never did anything to the Virtual Machine. And each time I choose I moved it, maybe it's relevant to the problem?
P.P.S I also have other Linux VMs, e.g Ubuntu which never had such problems, Hmm.
According to vmware-support You need to assign the MAC adress manually to avoid changes in the MAC automatically evrytime you moved it.
If you want to guarantee that the same MAC address is assigned to a given virtual machine every time, even if the virtual machine is moved, or if you want to guarantee a unique MAC address for each virtual machine within a networked environment, you can assign the address manually instead of allowing VMware Workstation to assign it automatically.
To assign the same, unique MAC address to any virtual machine manually, use a text editor to remove three lines from the configuration file and add one line. The configuration file has a.vmx extension at the end of the filename. On a Linux host, a virtual machine created with an earlier VMware product may have a configuration file with a .cfg extension.
As it's described:
Remove the three lines that begin with the following from the configuration file:
ethernet[n].generatedAddress
ethernet[n].addressType
ethernet[n].generatedAddressOffset
In these options, [n] is the number of the virtual Ethernet adapter — for example ethernet0.
Add the following line to the configuration file:
ethernet[n].address = 00:50:56:XX:YY:ZZ
Or you can edit the file like the following example:
ethernet[n].addressType = "static"
ethernet[n].checkMACAddress = "false"
ethernet[n].address = "00:50:56:XX:YY:ZZ"
