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The sections below detail known issues with using VMware discovered by the IS&T Vmware release team during testing. Additional known issues provided by VMware can be found in the Release Notes for each product. For details, see the VMware Workstation 6.0.x Release Notes and Vmware Fusion Release Notes.
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Sometimes after updating VMware tools on a guest, networking is offline. We don't know why this sometimes happens, but the easiest work-around is to reboot the guest.
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The network MAC address will change not only if you COPY your VM, or clone it, but also if you
MOVE it, even on the same host. This is because, unless you do extra hand configuration to set a MAC address explicitly, VMware will generate one that is a hash on the host ID, the location of the VM files, and a few other things. This will not be an issue for users who are using NAT networking, but may be an issue in Bridged networking if the guest OS puts the MAC address into the network configuration files (as often happens with Linux.)
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