VMWare Workstation Cheat Sheet

VMWare Workstation Cheat Sheet

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#compare mac address in the network adapter settings to the one in the output of command ip addr

Open a terminal on your Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machine.

Run the ip addr command to display information about the network interfaces.

ip addr

Virtual Machine Settings - Hardware - Network Adapter - Advanced - MAC Address
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The global LAN Segment configuration is stored in the preferences.ini file


PS C:\> Get-Content "$env:APPDATA\VMware\preferences.ini"

LAN Segment contains two properties: a name and universally unique identifier (UUID). 

PS C:\> Select-String -SimpleMatch 'link001' -Context 0,1 -Path "$env:APPDATA\VMware\preferences.ini"

> AppData\Roaming\VMware\preferences.ini:37:pref.namedPVNs0.name = "link001"
  AppData\Roaming\VMware\preferences.ini:38:pref.namedPVNs0.pvnID = "52 00 8d cc 3f f0 d0 55-e6 c7 2a 7a 3d 1b e5 77"

PS C:\> Select-String -SimpleMatch 'ethernet2' -Path "$HOME\Documents\Virtual Machines\ASAv-981\ASAv-981.vmx" | % Line
ethernet2.present = "TRUE"
ethernet2.pvnID = "52 00 8d cc 3f f0 d0 55-e6 c7 2a 7a 3d 1b e5 77"
ethernet2.connectionType = "pvn"
ethernet2.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet2.addressType = "generated"

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