Re: Workstation 17.5.0: (enhanced?) keyboard driver problem

alteramaxplus — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:49:20 GMT

Just posting to say "me too" ... keyboard and mouse input just lock up solid after some minimal VM use (Ubuntu VM on Win10 in my case).

I'm downgrading to 17.0.2 as we speak, VM is basically unusable on 17.5

Re: Problems with MAC addresses after upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1

alteramaxplus — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:46:00 GMT

It took a little messing around, but here's what I did to get my system going. In my case i had 2 interfaces, but only 1 MAC needed to match.

ESXi 5.1.0 build 799733

Good luck
Dan

edit the vmx file

/vmfs/volumes/50bf4d82-31b73571-5543-001e4f378eac/MAS # vi MAS.vmx

ensure you are using generated MACs:

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

ethernet1.addressType = "generated"

edit these 3 lines to reflect the MAC you want. this assumes you want to use one of the "VMWARE automagic (00:0c:29)" ones, notice the last 6 chars of the first two lines match the last 3 octets of your MAC

uuid.location = "56 4d 74 53 f4 52 bf 03-02 fb 39 13 6b 2b 6c fc"

uuid.bios = "56 4d 74 53 f4 52 bf 03-02 fb 39 13 6b 2b 6c fc"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:2b:6c:fc"

if you want ethernet1 to match something specific instead, you need to subtract 10 (0x0A) from the last octet of the ethernet0 MAC because of this line:

ethernet1.generatedAddressOffset = "10"

This will create ethernet1's MAC with a value of 10 more than ethernet0. I didn't play around with different values here, but presumably you could calculate & edit this number to get both MACs to match your needs.

remove the VM from inventory, and re-import it (by browsing the datastore to the vmx file)
When starting the VM, answer "I moved it" to the dialog box asking about what happened to your machine

edit: went back to the vmx file and noticed the uuid.location value was changed back to the original value for some reason... the other 2 (and of course most importantly, the actual MAC!) stuck just fine

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