How can I give a Network Adapter a meaningful name in VMware Workstation?

[vmman34]

Hi,

How can I give a Network Adapter a meaningful name?

I can't believe that you can't add and change the name of a network adaptor from it default.

I would like to re-name them to something like Dev1, Production1 etc....

Do you know of a way to do this?

Thanks

[Parveen1988]

Hi There,

Pretty easy.

Though you can't rename the default three Network Adapters(VMnet0, VMnet1 and VMnet8), rest adapter can be renamed.

Here is how:

1. Launch VMware Workstation.

2. Go to Edit-Virtual Network Editor-Change Settings-Add Network Adapter(Let's say you name it VMnet2).

3. Select the required configuration and voila, you can rename it as well. See attached screen shot.

[vmman34]

Hi FedEx-20,

Thanks for that but that is just renaming the VMNet and not the NIC, plus each NIC would have the same name that way. 

I mean the adapter name for example see the screenshot

[Parveen1988]

Hi,

Thanks for the response, but I don't think that would be possible, you could add a Network Adapter and in the Summary field, you can know whether its PROD, QA or Dev.

[vmman34]

They need to add this feature.

For example they should make the end of the name editable. i.e

Network Adapter 1 xxxxxx

Network Adapter 2 xxxxxx

Thanks

[Parveen1988]

Yeah!, If that gets added, it would be awesome.