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How do you change the HOST ID on a VM ware
How do you change the HOST ID on a VM ware
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All PTC products use the server machine's MAC or Ethernet Address for licensing purposes. This address is a permanent ID affixed to the Network Card and recognized on Ethernet based networks. PTC refers to this MAC or Ethernet Address as the HostID of the machine
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if i change the mac address, will the VM still work? Can i change it to anything and just keep the same formating?
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i tried changing the mac address int he .vmx file and when i saved it , the instance stop working ...
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well what i found out was instead of copying the instance from vm to vm, just creating a new one from scratch, i was able to get a unique host id.
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thank you for the quick response but it did not work, assigning the points anyway because i learned something new
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