Selecting MAC Addresses

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by minge, May 24, 2007.

  1. minge

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    Is there a method for selecting the MAC addresses used by the network adapter in Parallels?

    Basically I need to use Parallels on a Mac in a mainly PC government organization, but the PC IT department require a list of MAC addresses to be used. So is there a process I can use to generate the MAC Addresses for the VMs?
     
  2. Sator

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    1)If you need to change MAC address of VM go Configuration Editor->Network adapter->Advanced.
    2)If you need several copies of your VM with different IP addresses you should Clone(they will be generated automatically)
     
  3. minge

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    Thanks.

    Are the MAC Addresses random or are they generated sequentially?
     
  4. Sator

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    First two numbers are 00(to prevent concur with real machines MACs) following generates randomly.
     
  5. certsoft

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    The first three bytes on my parallels MAC address are 001A00 which actually belongs to a company in Japan according to IEEE:

    00-1A-00 (hex) MATRIX INC.
    001A00 (base 16) MATRIX INC.
    Annex of Chiyoda bld. 6-1-2
    Nishi-Temma Kita-Ku
    Osaka 530-0047
    JAPAN

    While they probably should have used locally assigned addresses instead of globally assigned ones, but the chances of a conflict are near zero.
     
    Last edited: May 24, 2007
  6. minge

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    Thanks for your help.

    I did a look up of the MAC Address in my copy of Parallels and it doesn't exist anywhere
    (00D191)
     

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