How to change MAC Address of existing Virtual Machines

 

I was having problem with my ethernet MAC in one of my VMs. I just did remember that I did not write post about this, so I am writing this now.

You will be simply failed if you have tried below things..,

1. Removing that ethernet from VM and adding new one

2. Generate a new MAC from the ethernet settings.

 

So what is the work around ?

lets start…,

Step 1.  Go to your VM working directory to the one you are facing issues. from Virtual Machine settings.

 

Step 2.  Edit the .vmx file by any text editor and find the below three entries below and remove completely from that file.

In my case these are below entries for you it will be in enthernet[n].generatedAddress= “your current MAC”

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:2b:5b:8e"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

 

Step 3.  Add a new static MAC address line to the configuration file with help of the following entries:

ethernetN.address = "00:50:56:XX:YY:ZZ"
ethernetN.addressType = “static”

XX should be  hexadecimal number between 00h and 3Fh,

YY  and ZZ should be  valid hexadecimal numbers between 00h and FFh.

How to submit your sitemap to Blogger

 

Its really simple but I have created this post for the Blogger beginners.

Step 1.

Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/   and sign in to gmail account which you have mapped in to Blogger.

Step 2.

Once you logged in you need to select your blog where you want to submit sitemap incase you are having more than one Blogs.

 

Step 3.

Now you are seeing the Dashboard of your selected Blog. Go to Crawl and choose Sitemaps as per the below screen.

 

Step 4. Click ADD /TEST SITEMAP like below and type following yellow colored text without quotes

“atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500”  and Hit “Submit Sitemap”

Note : If you are keeping more than 500 posts in your blog you need to add one more entry like below example for 501 to 1000 like vise 1001 to 1500.

Example :

“atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=1000”