Maintaining and Changing the MAC Address of a Virtual Machine When a virtual machine is powered on, VMware Workstation automatically assigns each of its virtual network adapters an Ethernet MAC address. MAC stands for media access control. A MAC address is the unique address assigned to each Ethernet network device. Select the virtual machine and select VM Settings. On the Hardware tab, select the virtual network adapter and click Advanced. Type a new MAC address in the MAC Address text box, or click Generate to have Workstation Pro generate a new address. Click OK to save your changes. Using VMware Horizon Client for Mac Using VMware Horizon Client for Mac provides information about installing and using VMware Horizon® Client™ software on a Mac to connect to a remote desktop or application in the datacenter. This information is intended for administrators who need to set up a Horizon deployment that includes Mac client.

In most network deployments, generated MAC addresses are a good approach. However, you might need to set a static MAC address for a virtual machine adapter with unique value.

The following cases show when you might set a static MAC address:

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• Virtual machine adapters on different physical hosts share the same subnet and are assigned the same MAC address, causing a conflict.
• Ensure that a virtual machine adapter always has the same MAC address.

By default, VMware uses the Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI) 00:50:56 for manually generated addresses, but all unique manually generated addresses are supported.

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