How to get the MAC address of the virtual machine on which vmware tool is not installed

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• How to get address Virtual Machine MAC on which vmware tools is not installed

  Hello

  I'm putting the MAC address of a virtual machine in a string. At first, I was using this script:

  strMACAddress = objVM.guest.net [0] .macAddress;

  But as indicated in the title, the vmware tools are not installed on the virtual machine. I found a similar position in vSphere Web Services SDK:

  http://communities.VMware.com/thread/254204

  In this post, it is specified to use the script VcVirtualEthernetCard() object. I'm new to Orchestrator and I do not understand how to make a "myVcVirtualEthernetCard" link to my virtual computer object 'objVM '.

  Example:

  IN: objVM (VcVirtualMachine)

  OUT: macAddress

  var myVcVirtualEthernetCard = new VcVirtualEthernetCard();

  macAddress var = myVcVirtualEthernetCard.macAddress;

  Thank you for your help.

  Kind regards

  Fred

  Hello!

  You can browse the table config.hardware.device of the virtual machine:

  IN: vm (Vc:VirtualMachine)

  DEPARTURES: Macaddresses (Array/string)

  //initialize macAddresses array (to make a push() possible later)
  macAddresses = new Array();
  var deviceArray = vm.config.hardware.device;
  if (!deviceArray) throw "Error getting hardware config array of VM";
      System.debug("deviceArray: " + deviceArray);
  //loop through array, find NICs and retrieve there MACs
  for (var i in deviceArray) {
      var currentDevice = deviceArray.pop();
      if (currentDevice) {
          System.debug("currentDevice: " + currentDevice);
          if (currentDevice instanceof VcVirtualE1000 ||
              currentDevice instanceof VcVirtualPCNet32 ||
              currentDevice instanceof VcVirtualVmxnet ||
              currentDevice instanceof VcVirtualVmxnet2 ||
              currentDevice instanceof VcVirtualVmxnet) {
                  System.debug("found network card on " + currentDevice);
                  macAddresses.push(currentDevice.macAddress) ;
          }
      }
  }
  

  Please let me know if it works for you, or if you need more information :-)

  Kind regards

  Joerg

• How to move the virtual machine from one cluster to another cluster

  How to move the virtual machine from one cluster to another cluster

  If two Clusters are in the same data center, you could do a 'live' migration or vMotion, if that's the case.   If the virtual machine is turned off, it may be migrated regardless of the data center.

• How to make the virtual machine in 64-bit with VMware6.5

  My CPU: AMD Turion 64 * 2

  Operating system: Windows xp 32

  Question:

  I want to run Open solaris 2008 which is 64 bit, I did a virtual machine but it is 32-bit. You tell me how to make the virtual machine in 64 bits in VMware6.5, I really appreciate.

  Yes.  Power off the virtual computer.  Change the settings.  Change the guest OS to Solaris 10 to Solaris 10 64-bit.

• How to get the Mac address of a virtual machine?

  Hello world...

  I need help to get the MAC address of a virtual computer, I'm stuck in it.

  Please reply if anyone know solutions.

  Thank you

  Mahesh Thawari

  Here's a vSphere SDK for Perl script that extracts the MAC addresses for all your virtual machines - http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10490

  You should be able to take it and translate it into any language vSphere SDK you plan to use. Basically you'll be listing through virtual hardware for the virtual machine to search for devices of type VirtualEthernetCard and then retrieve the MAC address of each device.

• Is it possible to programmatically retrieve the MAC address of a virtual machine VMware

  Can anyone suggest to programmatically retrieve the MAC address of a VMware virtual machine.

  I need a code for the above features.

  Post edited by: AntonVZhbankov

  Corrected in Hyper-V to VMware

  Now that I have a code in front of me, you can try essentially this:

  
  // MAC Variable
  string MACAddress;
  
  // Get Config Info (hardware)
  vmConfigInfo = (VirtualMachineConfigInfo)myAPI.getProperties(vmRef, new String[1] {"config"});
  
  //Iterate through devices
  foreach (VirtualDevice vDv in vmConfigInfo.hardware.device)
  {
      try
      {
          VirtualEthernetCard mycard = (VirtualEthernetCard)vDv;
          MACAddress = mycard.macAddress;
      }
      catch
      {
      }
  }
  

  Basically what's happening hear, you are pulling all the pieces of virtual hardware and iterate through them. If the piece is a network card, copy the following code will be able to cast an and pull up on the Mac. Otherwise, the cast fails and he is going to move. If you have multiple network cards, you want to add the mac to an array of strings, or something to keep account of more than one.

  This code assumes that you have connected and you have a way to make the configuration of the virtual machine property. The function 'getProperty' in the present code referring to my own function, not one in VMWare. If you don't know how to do this, just post back here and I know there are examples of pages out there anyone can post to explain this part.

• Question about how to include the virtual machine output

  Currently, using this command:

  Get - vm | Get-networkadapter | ForEach-Object {Write-Host $_.} The name', ' {$_.macaddress} '.

  Gives me this result:

  NIC 1, 00:50:56:bc:00:1 c

  NIC 1, 00:50:56:bc:00:28

  I'm interested also in writing the name of real virtual machine as well.

  name of the virtual machine 1, NIC 1, 00:50:56:bc:00:1 c
  name of the virtual machine 1, NIC 1, 00:50:56:bc:00:28

  Don't know how to work out of virtual machine name as 'Name' asks also the network card information.

  Try it like this

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  I have a laptop that is going to become my 'old' laptop, I bought and am always set up a new computer.

  I have a VM THAT evolution created on the 'old' portable using VMWare Workstation 10.  I installed the software VMWare Workstation 10 on the new laptop computer and am ready to move to the existing VM development since the old laptop again to continue the development of software on the virtual machine to the new machine.

  I never moved a computer virtual from one computer to another, and I guess that all I have to do is to copy and move the folder and all its content from the old laptop to the new, and then I'll be back in business?

  Just make sure it is this simple before doing so.

  Thanks for any input.

  It's as simple as that. When you start in the new machine, it should ask if you copied or moved. Answer that you moved it will keep the same MAC address and you will not be able to connect the two copies at the same time. You copied it saying assigns a new MAC and they both can connect, but a Windows machine can ask to reactivate. Seems to me he asked also to reactivate when I copied it for an Intel system AMD system, but it was a long time ago

  Lou

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