Issue about using a invalid MAC Address in vSphere

[曹伟 <ca...@travelsky.com>]

Hi all,

When I use cloudstack create a VM in VMware vSphere 4.1 enviroment, the VM will be applied a MAC Address  is not in the valid MAC range of VMware.If I edit the VM configuration, there will be an error like this:"The MAC Address entered is not in the valid range. Valid values are between 00:50:56:00:00:00 and 00:50:56:3F:FF:FF:FF", and I can't take any configuration for this VM.

So how can I make cloudstack to use the MAC address within the range that vmware permit? 

Re: Issue about using a invalid MAC Address in vSphere

[Chris Sears <ch...@sungard.com>]

Greetings,

Based on a quick review of the code, there is no way to force CloudStack to
assign MAC addresses in the range which VMware considers valid/expected.

If you wanted to suppress the warning for specific VMs, you could try
adding a line to the VMX files:

ethernet0.checkMACAddress = "false"

The procedure is described here: http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/787

If that works for you, please let us know and we could file an
improvement to have it automatically included for new VMware VMs.

 - Chris



On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:35 AM, 曹伟 <ca...@travelsky.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> When I use cloudstack create a VM in VMware vSphere 4.1 enviroment, the VM
> will be applied a MAC Address  is not in the valid MAC range of VMware.If I
> edit the VM configuration, there will be an error like this:"The MAC
> Address entered is not in the valid range. Valid values are between
> 00:50:56:00:00:00 and 00:50:56:3F:FF:FF:FF", and I can't take any
> configuration for this VM.
>
> So how can I make cloudstack to use the MAC address within the range that
> vmware permit?