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Preventing VMWare from binding on VT8
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In "vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware-vmx" binary file replace
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"/dev/tty%d" to "/tmp/tty%d" and create /tmp/tty7.
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VMWare will automatically generate a new hardware ethernet address for the
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guest operating system each time it starts up. This causes problems for some
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DHCP setups. For instance, at MSU, a hardware ethernet address must be
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registered (and associated with a user) before the DHCP server will issue an
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off-campus routable IP address.
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It's not really well documented (at least in VMWare 1.x), but VMWare can be
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told to always use a certain hardware ethernet address. To do this, add the
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following to the *.cfg file:
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# Networking bridged to real ethernet
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ethernet0.present = TRUE
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ethernet0.connectionType = bridged
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ethernet0.address = 00:50:56:00:XX:XX
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where the "XX" are digit Hex numbers (e.g. between 00 and FF). I think that
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in order to prevent various shenanogans, you can't pick the leading numbe