How to write scripts

[tontod]

For Vista, when you clone a VM, it asks to activate due to the MAC address of the VM changing. Through a search, I found this website that you can use to set a virtual MAC address:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-u...368136%28VS.85%29.aspx

How would I write these scripts?

 

[Nothinman]

http://technet.microsoft.com/e...y/cc708285(WS.10).aspx

Can't you just do that?

 

[tontod]

Dont think that would work. The "bare metal" OS is Redhat, Vista is a VM within it. I just want to run (not necessarily at the same time) another instance of Vista as a VM.

 

[Crusty]

What Virtualization platform are you using? That's where you're going to have to change the MAC address, not inside of Windows.

 

[tontod]

Using a customized version of VMware.

 

[Nothinman]

I'm pretty sure VMware lets you set the MAC address in the vmx as well, I posted that link because the one you put in the OP was for Virtual Server so I assumed you were using that.

 

[Crusty]

Yeah, you can either edit the machine config files to change the MAC manually or use whatever management interface you're using, it's different in each of VMWare Server/ESX/ESXi.